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6th Edition of Global Conference on

Addiction Medicine, Behavioral Health and Psychiatry

October 20-22, 2025 | Orlando, Florida, USA

GAB 2023

Relationship between religion and adolescent drug abuser

Speaker at Addiction Medicine, Behavioral Health and Psychiatry 2023 - Soewadi
Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Title : Relationship between religion and adolescent drug abuser

Abstract:

Significant changes occurring in the adolescent brain create an opportune time for poorly thought-out decisions and also involvement in potentially harmful behaviors. A time when the "plasticity" and malleability of the brain allow for interventions to reinforce or alter earlier experiences. Drugs are trending among teenagers these days and become one of the main public health concerns in the world. Adolescents are more likely to take drugs since their socio-emotional conditions are still developing and they are more susceptible to being persuaded to engage in antisocial behavior. Early use of drugs increases an adolescent's chances of developing addiction. We have to remember that drugs change brains, and this can lead to addiction and other serious problems such as intoxication, mental disorders and other physical disorders. Drug abuse also make negative impact on quality of life. Therefore, healing drug abuse, especially adolescents as quickly as possible, can prevent big risks in the future. If we can prevent young people from experimenting with drugs, we also can prevent drug addiction. Religion has the power to regulate behavior, serve as protection and security, and it is especially effective at keeping adolescents away from drug abuse. Holistic is defined as pertaining to all aspects of human nature—physical, mental, emotional, and religious. Approaching health holistically is to consider multiple aspect like mind, emotion, spirit, and whole body, how these things affect human health, it is not just the area that is showing the symptoms. The underlying foundation and prerequisite for true healing is compassion for the patient and consideration of all aspects of the patient’s nature, including family, culture, spirituality or religion, and community.

Audience Take Away Notes:

  • To explain the audience that most of adolescent drug abuser not to do the obedient their religion.
  • The audience have to be remembered that in order to manage the drug abuser, a holistic approach must be used, which means they have to consider the biopsychosocial and religion approach of the drug abuser.
  • This research can use in the other faculty to expand their research or teaching.
  • This research provide a practical solution to a problem that could simplify or make a designer’s job more efficient
  • This approach will be the new design solving problem for adolescent drug abuser.

Biography:

Prof. Soewadi, MD, MPH, PhD, studied psychiatry at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, and graduated as a psychiatrist in 1984. He then studied at the Prins Leopold Institute in Antwerpen, Belgium, and graduated as a Master of Public Health in 1984. He received his PhD degree in 1992 at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. Prof. Soewadi is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at Gajah Mada University. He has published more than 30 research articles in Psychiatry.

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