A Legal Study on Drug Abuse among Teenagers

Abstract : The government has issued Law No. 5 of 1997 on Psychotropic Substances and Law No. 35 of 2009 on Narcotics. Thus the presence of this law can suppress the smallest abuse of narcotics. Narcotics abuse is a big problem for Indonesia because it can damage the next generation of the nation, society, Indonesia’s National Resilience. Narcotics abuse can certainly cause physical damage, mental health, emotions and attitudes in society. The problem of narcotics abuse has threatened society and the nation so that it has become an organized crime in the national scope and for the international world. Based on this background, the author raises a scientific journal entitled “Legal Studies on Narcotics Abuse among Teenagers”. Related to this scientific journal, the author explains the problem of how the application of criminal law regarding the regulation of narcotics crime in Indonesia and how the criminal law system regarding the regulation of narcotics crime in Indonesia. The research method in this scientific journal is carried out with a normative juridical approach, namely by analyzing the problem through a legal principles approach and referring to the legal norms contained in the legislation. The data used in this scientific journal is secondary data.