Abstract:
The research was aimed to study the cause for workers participation in drug prevention and suppression effort in Samut Prakarn Province, assess the level of workers participartion in drug prevention and suppression effort in Samut Prakarn Province and study solution to improve workers participation in drug prevention and suppression effort in Samut Prakarn Province and study solution to improve workers participation in drug prevention and suppression effort in Samut Prakarn Province. This research collected information by interviewing a target group of 283 workers in Samut Prakarn Province. The statistics that were used for this research are percentage, average, and relationship analysis with the Chi-Square. The results shown that the male target groups has a close ratio result to the women group, in the age group of 16-30 years, who graduated from junior high school are single and have salary range of 4,000-7,000 baht per month, stay in a flat/apartment. This group is exposed to drug information up to 5 times per week. They have a negative opinion of the image of police, a recognition of harsh drug punishment, but none distinction between different levels in drug punishment in terms of regulation. They have been employed around 1-5 years and the participation of the management in supporting drug activities. The results show that age, the level of education, marital status, salary, residence, the frequency of receiving drug information, police image, knowledge of drug punishment, knowledge of punishment regulations, the period of work, and the participation of the management that support activity in drug prevention and suppression effort have an affect in workers participation in drug prevention and suppression effort at a statistic level of 0.05. Recommendations on prevention and solving the drug problems in industries are: prevention and improvement is the responsibility of everyone who have to join together in fighting the drug problems, emphasis in drug prevention activity that provide knowledge about drug punishment, improve working conditions to discourage drug use, improve home life in worker families and support good families relationships, create standards in drug prevention in the industry to protect the spread out of drugs, create suppression standards and decrease the amount of drug dealer by reducing the numeric of groups selling drugs in the industry, treat and rehabilitates drug addicts and improve their emotional attitude to become beneficial member of society.