PREVENTING DRUGS ABUSE AMONG STUDENT

The honourable juries and my loving audience, Good Morning.  I stand up before you to deliver my speech of “ Preventing Drugs Abuse Among Students” . But First of all. I’d like to extend sincere gratitude to organizing committee who has given me this opportunity   And  I also want to introduce my self. My name is Ni Made Binantari.

            Ladies and Gentlement,

As we know Indonesia is a country with 214 millions populations and spreads about 18.100 islands it makes Indonesia easy to receive the effects from the other country directly and  indirectly as well.

            Direct effect which happened much is the problem of drug abuse. Before that, I’d like to ask to you, do you know what’s drug? Well, I think the word of drug is not strange for us, because we often watch and hear on the television many people are talking about drug and the negative impact of it. Actually drug is the abbreviation of narcotics and illicit drugs which consist of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and methyl amphetamine. Actually drugs are useful in medical part but many people abuse the drugs and make the negative impact for them selves.This problem of drug abuse is not only found in the society that live in city but also those who live in village. The user of drug is not adult but those who are  in elementary school age or junior high school have become the victims of drugs abuse.

            You know the distributors of drugs will use many kind of ways to persuade their victims or the students to use drugs to gain a big advantage because they know that the children still on the unstable condition.

            Ladies and Gentlement,

In Indonesia the user of drugs abuse is so large especially used by students.  A total of 921 695 people or about 4.7% of total students in the country listed as a drug user based on a survey of the National Narcotics Agency in 2011 years  ago . Do you know what’s the cause? Let me tell you Ladies and Gentlement.  The first reason why must teenagers fall into the world of medicine,, is that by using drugs they can decrease their stress, or even forget their problem. How drugs can do that? Well Ladies and Gentlement, drugs are having stimulate effects in which increase the work of heart, pump the lung quicker and activating hormone in brain. So it can makes them fell fresh and get more spirit.

The second reason is parental problem, the lack attention from their parents, because their parents too busy with their activity.  They pay less attention to their children so that children become less attentive and less affection. Parents and children rarely communicate so that the children don’t know with whom they must sharing their problem , so they use drugs as a one way to forget their problem. That also cause of the mistake of the children or student in choosing friend in their intercourse.

The third cause of the number of drugs user in Indonesia is so large is because of the weak law enforcement in Indonesia , international dealers can cooperate with Indonesian citizens and gain a big advantage.

Ladies and Gentlement,

Drugs abuse is really harmful not only for the user or the students themselves, but also for their family , for school or for the country itself. Once they have tried it, it will be very hard for them to leave it. It means they will break their future as well. If they get addicted , the users will do many things to set the drugs such as lie to their parents, steal the valuable things at home and so on. The students who are already fallen in this world tend to break their organ functions like heart, lung, kidney and also disturb the brain function and cause of death. Drugs users also break their school’s regulation, they often play truant and become a lazy students. So this case makes the parents become shy because of their children become the drugs user and parents become hopeless because the future of their child is not clear. The continuity of the country also in danger because the young generation is not productive, crime and high date rate increase.

Ladies and Gentlement,

After knowing serious effects of drug abuse especially for the students, the question is “what should we do to preventing drugs abuse among students?’’ Well, there are some ways which can we do to prevent it, such as:

1.      We must have a awareness that drugs abuse does not give any advantage for us. Drugs  abuse can be prevented through programs such as following the social activities,no dealing with users or drugs dealers, not easily influenced solicitation and seduction to use drugs. Or if there is a someone offer the drug we must think before “what is the advantage for me or why I must use drugs?” like that. And of course we will reject that offering. Alpha

The other movements that can we do as students to prevent drug abuse such as :

* Keep closer to God
* Improve our knowledge  about Drugs

* spend our spare  times with positive activities like sport,, do our hobby and so on

* Not easily hopeless, and do not solve problems in  instant ways for example is using drugs.

*We must selective in choosing friends. There are two types There are two types of friends, there is a good friend and bad friends. A good friend will always be there for us when happy or sad. Always support and give good advice if we have a problem. And bad friends are friends who just want to be with us when we left happy and when collapsed. Even plunges us into the negative things. Of course we must choose the good friends.

2.      Parents should be a good model  for their children, giving children love and attention. Parents should take the time to communicate with the children so the children can pour out his troubles and stay away from drug abuse. And the parents must control their children in the intercourse.

3.      Schools provide counseling to the students about the dangers and consequences of drug abuse through BP teacher, by conducting discussions that engage students in planning for intervention and prevention of drug abuse in schools. Another important program is the program of Narcotics vigilant in identifying the characteristics of students who use drugs, be aware of the existence of an unknown guest or dealer, and perform impromptu raids.

4.      The government can give the socialization  to the society about drugs and the effects of drugs abuse. So the society will know about drugs abuse and they will never try to abuse the drugs. And the government must make the tights regulation. So the dealers of drugs can’t  distribute the drugs to the society.

Okay that are some ways that can we do to prevent the drugs abuse among the students. But the most important, we as the young generation must have an awareness that the future of our country is on our hand. Let us not damage our nation simply because of  personal interest. Let us build our nation without drugs by mutual interest. Well, I have a suggestion that we as young generation must have this three principle in our life  Love, Peace, And Be Positive Thinking. Start from now SAY NO TO DRUGS ..

            Ladies and Gentlement,

I think that all of my speech about preventing drugs abuse among students. Thanks for your attention. Good morning and have a nice day.