Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Products containing scheduled substances such as psychotropic pills, cough medicines and Mitragyna Speciosa (ketum) had been frequently abused and often perceived as less threatening compared to the pandemic issue of illicit dangerous drugs use. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to qualitatively investigate the issues surrounding the abuse of products containing scheduled substances and the relationship between the abuse of these products and the illicit use of dangerous drugs among the clients in Cure and Care Clinic Karangan, Kedah. METHODS: Direct interview sessions were simultaneously held by four interviewers, involving a total of thirty clients at the Cure and Care Clinic Karangan, Kedah. Convenience sampling METHODS: was used. Interviewers were given a set of questions as reference points. Interviews were done until the data saturation point was achieved. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and the data was analysed into themes. RESULTS: The thematic analysis grouped the data into five themes, namely the factors triggering scheduled substance abuse, accessibility and affordability of the abuse scheduled substances, the types of scheduled substances abused and illicit use of dangerous drugs, dependence or habit-forming effects, and the ramification of substance addiction. Two main products containing scheduled substances; cough preparations and ketum had been identified as the popular choice for abuse among the clients. DISCUSSION: The abuse of scheduled substances plays a role in prompting the subsequent illicit use of dangerous drugs among the clients mainly due to the ease of access to the scheduled substances such as ketum and cough preparations in the market.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-33,
title = {A Qualitative Study on Scheduled Substances Abuse Among the Clients of Cure and Care Clinic, Karangan, Kedah.},
author = {Ahmad Aizat Zaini and Mohd Hanif Mustafa},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Products containing scheduled substances such as psychotropic pills, cough medicines and Mitragyna Speciosa (ketum) had been frequently abused and often perceived as less threatening compared to the pandemic issue of illicit dangerous drugs use. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to qualitatively investigate the issues surrounding the abuse of products containing scheduled substances and the relationship between the abuse of these products and the illicit use of dangerous drugs among the clients in Cure and Care Clinic Karangan, Kedah. METHODS: Direct interview sessions were simultaneously held by four interviewers, involving a total of thirty clients at the Cure and Care Clinic Karangan, Kedah. Convenience sampling METHODS: was used. Interviewers were given a set of questions as reference points. Interviews were done until the data saturation point was achieved. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and the data was analysed into themes. RESULTS: The thematic analysis grouped the data into five themes, namely the factors triggering scheduled substance abuse, accessibility and affordability of the abuse scheduled substances, the types of scheduled substances abused and illicit use of dangerous drugs, dependence or habit-forming effects, and the ramification of substance addiction. Two main products containing scheduled substances; cough preparations and ketum had been identified as the popular choice for abuse among the clients. DISCUSSION: The abuse of scheduled substances plays a role in prompting the subsequent illicit use of dangerous drugs among the clients mainly due to the ease of access to the scheduled substances such as ketum and cough preparations in the market.},
note = {Type: ORAL PRESENTATION; Organisation: Pharmacy Enforcement Branch, Division of Pharmaceutical Services, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, Pharmacy Enforcement Branch, Division of Pharmaceutical Services, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia},
keywords = {apcph2019, cough medicine, illicit use of dangerous drugs., ketum (Mitragyna Speciosa), schedules substances abuse},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}