A Research Proposal: Analyzing Drug Abuse Effects on UK Teenagers

This report presents a research proposal examining the effects of drug abuse on teenagers in the UK, with a specific focus on London. The proposal outlines the aims and objectives, which include analyzing the impact of drugs on teenagers' health and identifying associated problems and diseases. A literature review highlights the importance of healthy cognitive function during teenage years and the risks associated with substance abuse, including social and professional consequences. The research question focuses on the effects of drug abuse in UK teenagers. The methodology includes secondary data collection and sampling techniques. The report also discusses data analysis processes and ethical considerations, such as obtaining informed consent and maintaining respondent privacy. References to relevant research papers are provided.

Research Proposal

Introduction
 This presentation include the review of the research proposal that
discuss the effects of drugs on the teenagers of the UK.
 The various aspects of the research assessment includes in this
overall presentation.
 The use of drugs mainly affects the mental health of the teens and
made their mind distracted from study and several other activities.
 The drug abuse includes the specific aspects of the health on the
teenagers in London

Aims and Objectives
 The aim of the research proposal is to analyse the
effects of drug abuse among the teenagers in UK.
 The objectives of the research project includes:
 To analyse the effects of drugs among teenagers
 To analyse the health problems created among
teenagers due to the effects of drugs
 To analyse the several issues created due to the drug
abusing among teenagers.
 To determine the diseases occurred in the teenagers
due to the drug abusing activities.

Literature Review
 The teenage years are vital to the healthy cognitive
function as an adult so the strict behaviour is also
important during these years.
 The teen brain development gets affected by the substance
abuse.
 The taking of alcohol create serious risk to the physical
health and affect their mental and physical health in a
proper manner
 Due to the drug abuse, the several risks are arising for
teens like for social and professional risks are occurred.

Continued…
 This affect due to the mistakes of their parents as they
are busy in their official activities and cannot give
attention to their children.
 Teenage is a time period where a pre-schooler enters
into social world and this create several changes
among the physiological and psychologically
 It is important for the UK government to take this issue
seriously and stop the problems occurred in the life of
the people.

Research Question
 The research question of this assessment is :
Q1. What are the effects of drug abuse in the teenagers of UK, London?

Data Collection process
 Data collection is one of the important methods of the overall research
assessment.
 There are different types of data collection that are used to collecting
data related to the particular process of the research.
 The two process of data collection are mainly used in the research
assessment that are primary method of data collection and secondary
method of data collection.
 This research uses the secondary method for collecting the data.

Sampling
 The sampling study and data population plays an important role in the research
project .
 Sample includes the group of people, objects or items that taken from the
larger population for measure some aspects related to the particular
assessment.
 The sampling is all depends on the responses taken by the respondents in the
primary method of research.
 Sampling is important for getting the valid results based on the research
project

Data Analysis Process
 Data Analysis is a process of collecting, transforming and
modelling data with the goal of discovering the required
information.
 The results get by the data analysis are communicated and
supports the decision-taking based on the research project.
 The data analysis is also one of the important process in the
research assessment.
 The secondary data analysis is simply the analysis of data that
includes collecting, reviewing and drawing conclusions from the
results .

Ethics
 In the research assessment, the various ethics are also involved.
 The research ethics define the several ethical principles or values in
the research process.
 The research ethics include several processes of the research that
includes it obtain informed consent from potential research
participants.
 The ethical practices are too important for the research as the
respondents need to maintain privacy in their data

References
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 Dumbreck, S., Flynn, A., Nairn, M., Wilson, M., Treweek, S., Mercer, S.W., Alderson, P.,
Thompson, A., Payne, K. and Guthrie, B., 2015. Drug-disease and drug-drug interactions:
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