The Application of the Concept of Rehabilitation for Children Using Narcotics

Abstract

Narcotics circulation has spread in all walks of life. The rampant circulation and abuse of narcotics is recognized by many as a very dangerous threat to the younger generation, especially children.With the issuance of Act No. 35 of 2009regarding Narcotics, is expected to be able to prevent and suppress the increase in circulation and use of narcotics in the territory of Indonesia. The purpose of this writing is to find out how the process of implementing rehabilitation for children who use narcotics and what are the obstacles in the process of implementing this rehabilitation. This paper uses a type of normative juridical research method by maximizing the case approach and the law approach. The results of this study show that the rehabilitation process consists of 5 (five) stages, namely the intake process, detoxification, entry, primary stage, and re-entry stage. The implementation of rehabilitation also encountered obstacles such as ignorance of the community as a whole and uncooperative narcotics abusers.