Does Drug Testing at Music Festivals Promote Illicit Drug Use Amongst Teenagers?

Running Head: DOES DRUG TESTING AT MUSIC FESTIVALS PROMOTE ILLICIT DRUG USE AMONGST TEENAGERS? 1
DOES DRUG TESTING AT MUSIC FESTIVALS PROMOTE ILLICIT DRUG USE
AMONGST TEENAGERS?
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DOES DRUG TESTING AT MUSIC FESTIVALS PROMOTE ILLICIT DRUG USE AMONGST TEENAGERS? 2
Introduction
The use of drugs at the music festival has become an issue of concern over the past few
years in Australia (Brunt, 2017). This is after it led into a number of deaths and harm to people in
recent years with the most recent death occurring to a man at the age of 19 years who had
attended the knockout games music festivals in NSW on 7th Dec 2018. It is in the same music
festival that led to three individuals taken to health centers in a dangerous condition for treatment
and also more than a hundred other sought medical treatment when the event was taking place.
This paper researches whether music festivals really promote the use of illegal drugs especially
among the youth in Australia.
Authorship
The authorship of this research study was made successful through the efforts of ND, JC,
SG, and BG. All of these played part in the developing the design of the study. They were all
involved in the collection and analyzing the data. The work of drafting the manuscript was done
by ND, BG, SG, and JC concentrated on drafting the manuscript. The provision of content
expertise guidance and the overall methodological were done by SWP, FJL, and JL. The study
was led by SWP. Finally, all the authors played a role in drafting the study and also went through
the final manuscript to approve it. During the entire study there was possible gender bias because
most of the people that were in attendance were women thus they represented a large population
of the people that take illicit drugs. This contradicts the national data that shows that men are the
one that consume a lot of drugs compared to women. The authors have no conflict of interest. To
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DOES DRUG TESTING AT MUSIC FESTIVALS PROMOTE ILLICIT DRUG USE AMONGST TEENAGERS? 3
Research questions
The aim of this study was done to understand whether the activities of testing drugs at music
festival promote usage of drugs among the youths which drew up to our hypothesis that “does
drug testing at music festivals encourage drug taking amongst the teenagers?” Investigation that
was done by this research study compared illicit drug prevalence among the teenagers that
attended a music festival in Australia (Mohr, Friscia, Yeakel, & Logan, 2018). First, it compared
their thoughts on on-site drug checking as well as the impact that the on-site drug checking
would have on the behavior of taking drugs. These were the major research question that this
study focused on in order to attain a clear understanding of drug prevalence among the youth
Research design
The type of research design used in this research study is known as a co-relational design
(Day et. al 2018). Under co-relational design, exploration is made on the relationship between
the variables through the use of statistical analysis. Nevertheless, it doesn't look for the causes
and the effects and thus, mostly applies the use of observational methods when collecting data.
From the above research study, it is evident that the mode of data collection is mostly done
through observation. It is also evident that the research doesn't look at the reasons or causes of
the youth engaging in drugs as well as the effects of their engagement in drugs. Data collected in
the research study is presented and a comparison made from groups not exposed to the variable.
These are the characteristics of a co-relational research design.
Research methods
Research methods used in this study consists of the development of surveys (De Kock et.
Al, 2017). The structure of the survey and its content was under the guidance of the research