An Investigation to Critically Assess the Effects of Drug...

Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (Internal Assessment) Topic: â€Å"An investigation to critically assess the effects of drug abuse among youths between ages 10-25 of my community of Bonne Aventure† [pic] [pic] [pic] CANDIDATE’S PROFILE NAME OF CANDIDATE: Boshanie Patloo NAME OF SCHOOL: Marabella North Secondary School REGISTRATION NUMBER: TERRITORY: Trinidad DATE SUBMITTED: Monday 20th April 2009 THEME: Effects of drug abuse among youths in my Community TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Acknowledgements†¦show more content†¦By completing this paper and actually doing fieldwork on this research, I hope it will broaden my understanding of drug users, its effects on the body and society and why it is in such high demand. [pic] An investigation to critically assess the effects of drug abuse among youths between ages 10-25 of my community of Bonne Aventure. 1. What influences youths to use drugs? 2. What is the impact of drug abuse on their lives? 3. What can be done to stop drug abuse? [pic] The questionnaire and interview was chosen over other methods of data collection because of the time and cost factor. It is usually cheaper and faster. However, since information was only gathered in one community, this hindered my project to reflect views and opinions of other parts of the country. The design of the questionnaire had too many close ended questions thus the respondent was unable to express his thoughts to any extent that have not been pre-empted or not considered by the researcher. A copy of the questionnaire and interview can be found in Appendix on page Problems were also encountered in the process of the interview. 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