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191233
Mon, 06/27/2011 - 05:29
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83 pct of drug addicts not given legal advice on rehab
More than 80 percent of drug addicts in South Korea were not advised by the judiciary to get treatment for their addictions, leaving a majority of them to struggle on their own, a report showed Monday.
According to the report by Jo Geun-ho, a professor at the department of addiction rehabilitation with social welfare at Eulji University, 83 percent of drug addicts said they were not given legal advice to receive treatment. If provided with rehabilitation programs, 73.8 percent said they would get treatment.
The survey was conducted on 523 drug addicts in rehabilitation centers, hospitals and correctional institutions nationwide.
Nearly half of those surveyed, or 46.3 percent, were sentenced to actual jail terms, while another 32.8 percent were put on probation or ordered to take classes.
The report also showed that 86.4 percent of those receiving treatment had tried to quit taking drugs, only to relapse an average of 10.09 times.
Of those who tried to quit, 53.1 percent said they tried on their own while 10.3 percent said they asked for help from their families and acquaintances. Only 10.1 percent visited medical facilities while 4.4 percent went to counseling centers.
In fighting addiction, stress was picked as the most obstructive factor by 18.7 percent, followed by sexual gratification (14.8 percent), recommendations from others (14.6 percent), pleasure-seeking (12.4 percent) and upset feelings (10.6 percent).
According to the report by Jo Geun-ho, a professor at the department of addiction rehabilitation with social welfare at Eulji University, 83 percent of drug addicts said they were not given legal advice to receive treatment. If provided with rehabilitation programs, 73.8 percent said they would get treatment.
The survey was conducted on 523 drug addicts in rehabilitation centers, hospitals and correctional institutions nationwide.
Nearly half of those surveyed, or 46.3 percent, were sentenced to actual jail terms, while another 32.8 percent were put on probation or ordered to take classes.
The report also showed that 86.4 percent of those receiving treatment had tried to quit taking drugs, only to relapse an average of 10.09 times.
Of those who tried to quit, 53.1 percent said they tried on their own while 10.3 percent said they asked for help from their families and acquaintances. Only 10.1 percent visited medical facilities while 4.4 percent went to counseling centers.
In fighting addiction, stress was picked as the most obstructive factor by 18.7 percent, followed by sexual gratification (14.8 percent), recommendations from others (14.6 percent), pleasure-seeking (12.4 percent) and upset feelings (10.6 percent).
