On the 1980s drug abuse became one of the serious problems in Korea and philopon abuse still more. There are various view points in approaching drug analysis as a way of preventing and treating the drug abuse.
As the philopon abuser group, we took 49 cases among respondents who were criminally admitted to medical institutions in Busan and Kyungsangnam-Do from March to September, 1990. And as a control group we took 50 cases of adults who are non-philopon abuser in Seoul.
The results were as follows:
1. Age distribution of philopon abuse group is as follows : 4th decade were 22 cases(44.9%), 3rd decade were 17 cases(34.7%).
2. In smoking rate, philopon abuse group were significantly higher than the control group(P<0.001), but smoking amount were not significant between the two groups.
3. Basic motivation study of abuse group
a. first motivation for philopon : curiosity 26 cases(53.1%), friends' temptation 6 cases(12.2%).
b. place of drug use : house of his own or others' 20 cases(40.9%), hotel 18 cases(36.7%).
c. partner of drug use : alone 12 cases(24.5%), friends or fellows 11 cases(12.2%).
d. real causality of abuse : away from everyday-life 15 cases(30.6%), for pleasure 11 cases(22.4%).
4. In view of family cohesion, disengaged and enmeshed groups of the abuser' were significantly higher than the control group(P<0.05). But family adaptibily showed no significant difference between the 2 groups.
5. Balanced families were significantly lesser and extreme families were significantly more than the control group(P<0.05).
