Comprehensive Research Report: Drug Addiction's Impact on Families

This research report delves into the significant impact of drug addiction on the families of addicts, exploring the multifaceted challenges they face. The report begins with an introduction to drug addiction as a societal issue, emphasizing its effects beyond the individual. It outlines the study's aim, which is to investigate the influence of drug addiction on families, along with specific objectives such as identifying issues, analyzing coping strategies, and exploring awareness methods. The research questions guide the investigation into the problems faced, solutions for overcoming addiction, and ways to increase awareness. The literature review synthesizes existing research, highlighting the impact on patients' quality of life, family dynamics, and financial stability. The methodology section details the qualitative research approach, mixed research method (secondary and primary data), sampling technique (snowball sampling), and ethical considerations. Results from questionnaire data analysis reveal key findings on the duration of family members' association with addicts, the impacts experienced (social stigma, mental trauma, financial stress), and preferred methods for overcoming addiction (professional help, meditation, volunteer work) and raising awareness (personal clinical consultation). The discussion section connects primary findings with the literature review and secondary data, underscoring the need for tailored support and awareness strategies. The report concludes by summarizing the key insights and emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing the challenges faced by families affected by drug addiction. The report is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-powered study tools for students.

Research Report

Contents
ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................................3
Background Introduction.................................................................................................................1
Aim and Objectives..........................................................................................................................1
Research Questions.........................................................................................................................2
Rationale for the Research..............................................................................................................2
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................2
To identify the issues of drug addiction on life of patients as well as their family.....................2
To analyse the ways of overcoming with the issues associated with drug addiction.................3
To explore ways for increasing awareness about the effect of drugs among family of drugs
addicts..........................................................................................................................................4
Methods and Methodologies..........................................................................................................4
Type of research..........................................................................................................................4
Research method.........................................................................................................................5
Sampling technique.....................................................................................................................5
Ethical Issues....................................................................................................................................5
Results/Findings...............................................................................................................................6
Discussion........................................................................................................................................9
Key Findings...................................................................................................................................10
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................10
References.....................................................................................................................................11

Appendix........................................................................................................................................12

ABSTRACT
Drug addiction has always been a point of discussion under health and social care. This
research report involves an investigation that is focused to the impact of drug addiction on the
family of drug addicts. This report has data procured from previous researches as well that will
help in educating this investigation’s readers.

Background Introduction
Drug addiction is a brain disorder which stimuli compulsive consequences, this addiction of
drugs has resulted in a major issue for today’ society. The substances which cause drug
addiction includes alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine and more. These substances are
consumed and interfere with the neurons due to which body demands regular consumption of
these substances. Health and social care is a term which used to provide health services in
United Kingdom (Feltenstein, See and Fuchs, 2020). The region of UK is highly effected by the
drug addiction due to which HSC services of this region are being questioned. Approximately
8000 casualties were caused in 2015 due to drunk driving which leads to the direction that drug
addiction is a major issue for the society and HSC services.
The major challenge with drug addiction is that it does not only impacts the drug addict but
also impacts the associated people like friends and family.
Aim and Objectives
Aim
"Influence of drug addiction on family of drugs addicts".
Objectives:
 To identify the issues of drug addiction on life of patients as well as their family.
 To analyse the ways of overcoming with the issues associated with drug addiction
 To explore ways for increasing awareness about the effect of drugs among family of
drugs addicts.
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Research Questions
 What are the issues of drug addiction on life of patients as well as their family?
 What are the ways of overcoming the issues associated with drug addiction?
 How awareness about the effect of drugs among family of drugs addicts can be
increased?
Rationale for the Research
Rationale refers to the reason or justification behind conducting an investigation. There are
various previous investigations has been conducted that are focused on the influence on drugs
and drug addiction. This particular research will be conducted to investigate the impact that
drug addicts’ levies on their family members. There are two kinds of impacts that drug
addiction has on the family members; out of them one is direct and other is indirect. The direct
impact is due to passive drug consumption which is caused by smoke and indirect impact is the
mental trauma which family goes from due to the behaviour and actions of drug addict. It is
important to analyse these influences due to which this research is well justified and
rationalised to be conducted.
Literature Review
To identify the issues of drug addiction on life of patients as well as their family
According to Laudet, (2011), patients who are drug addicts experience low quality of life
due to the issues which they face at the level of clinical, functional and personal. The addiction
of drugs does not only impact the physical body of patients but it also impacts their health
status based on psychological and social functioning. This author also states that overall life
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satisfaction of drug addicts is also has lowered down. The drug addiction is also referred as the
substance abuse that impacts difference human body organs. For example, excessive alcohol
impacts the liver and heart of a human body, tobacco impacts lungs and throat of a human
body and more. Drug addiction develops a rage in the body of patients due to which life of a
patient at social and metal life is also harmed.
From the investigation of Lander, Howsare and Byrne, (2013), more than 8 million
children are under the care of drug addicts and thousands of them have faced mental or
physical abuse. The drug addiction also impacts the financial stability of a family and the
perspective of society against the drug addicts is obviously negative due to which family of drug
addicts has to face problems at physical, mental, financial and even at social level. Not only this
but the passive drug consumption caused by smoking tobacco and marihuana even impacted
the health of family members of drug addicts as well.
To analyse the ways of overcoming with the issues associated with drug addiction
As per the opinion of Curtis, (2013), the issues of drug addiction can only be mitigated by
making the patient overcoming drug addiction. This procedure of overcoming from drug
addiction cannot only be done by the patients as it is important to be supported from the
family and other associated people. There are various ways which can help the drug addicts to
overcome with this addiction that will directly lead to overcoming from the issues of drug
addiction. The most important way to overcome from drug addiction is to seek professional
help. By using this way, physicians and therapists can guide how to attain success in overcoming
from the addiction by using structured programs that are safe to maintain sobriety. Other than
this, there are other ways as well in which family and friends of the patient can help; these
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ways are engage in volunteer work, find new hobbies, meditate and exercise to exert the
energy.
To explore ways for increasing awareness about the effect of drugs among family of drugs
addicts
According to Aveyard, (2014), it is important to spread awareness about the negative
effects of drug addiction among the families of drug addicts as by educating them about the
effects which they can face and this will push them to help the drug addict to overcome with
their addiction. The most effective way to increase such awareness is to reduce the stigma of
addiction as society look drug addicts as trouble. Authorised governmental parties or voluntary
associations can educate the entire community through the events such as festivals and sports
competitions. The families of drug addicts can be provided the consultancy from doctors who
can make them understand the effects and consequences of drug addiction.
Methods and Methodologies
Type of research
Broadly there are two types of research reports and that are quantitative and qualitative.
The quantitative research is based numbers and statistical analysis. On the other hand,
qualitative research report expresses the data using descriptive content. This present
investigation is in the form of qualitative research as the analysis of data will be done in
descriptive form.
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Research method
There are widely two types of research methods which are primary and secondary. In the
case of primary research, data is collected from primary and first hand sources which are not
used before (Everitt and Robbins, 2016). On the other hand, in secondary research method, the
data for investigation is collected from secondary sources such as books, journals and more. In
the present research report, the method of research which is being used is mixed as in this
report secondary data is collected from journals and books and is recoded as literature review.
In addition, the primary data will also be collected and will be analysed using frequency
distribution and graphical analysis using software application of Microsoft Excel.
The primary information in this investigation will be acquired using a questionnaire having
4 close ended and one open ended research. The questionnaire is a tool here which is attached
in appendix.
Sampling technique
The data using the questionnaire will be collected from the family members of drug
addicts. These family members will be selected using a sampling technique of snowball
sampling (Hennink, Hutter and Bailey, 2020). In this technique few family members will be first
questioned and then by their recommendations other people will be questioned.
Ethical Issues
These issues are subject to research ethics which is important to be followed while
conducting an investigation. In this particular research, primary data has been collected from
the family members of drug addicts. While conducting this research, ethical issues to maintain
the confidentiality of personal information was faced. Along with this, the ethical issue of
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anonymity was also faced as none of the respondents were ready to disclose their identity due
to the stigma regarding drug addicts in society.
Results/Findings
Using the data collected from questionnaire, the information is being analysed in this
section using the data analysis tools of frequency distribution and graphical analysis.
Question 1: How long you have been a family member of a drug addict? Frequency
a) Less than one year 5
b) 1 – 5 years 35
c) 6 – 10 years 10
Interpretation: From the above graphical analysis, it has been analysed that among all
the respondents, most of the family members are associated with the drug addicts for 1 to 5
years which provides a point of conclusion that even after being a family member of a drug
addicts, these family members are still in support and are responsible for their family.
Question 2: What is the major impact on your life due to being a family member of Frequency
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a drug addict?
a) Facing social stigma 15
b) Mental trauma 15
c) Financial stress 20
Interpretation: The above frequency analysis shows that among 50 respondents, there is
no specific pattern has been observed while identifying the impact on family member’s life, this
provides a conclusion that all these influences are equally impactful for the family members of
drug addicts. This also helps in analysis that for each family, drug addiction has levied a
different problem which can be social stigma, financial stress or mental trauma.
Question 3: According to you, what are the ways from which your family member
can overcome with their drug addiction?
Frequency
a) Professional help 25
b) Meditation and Yoga 10
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