White Community: Empowering People to Improve Drug Safety in Klong Naew Likhit Community, Krathum Baen District, Samut Sakhon Province

Abstract

This research aims to 1) study the drug problem in the community of Khlong Naew Likhit, Krathum Baen District, Samut Sakhon Province, 2) promote activities to empower people to improve drug safety in the community of Khlong Naew Likhit Krathum Baen District, Samut Sakhon Province, and 3) extract lessons from the success of the White Community: Empowering people to improve the community to be drug-free in the community of Khlong Naew Likhit, Krathum Baen District, Samut Sakhon Province. The concepts of preventing drug problems in the community, the concept of participation, the concept of networking, and the concept of empowerment were used as the research framework. The research instruments are interview form and an activity data recording form. Data were analyzed using content analysis and descriptive writing.

The research results found that 1) the drug problem in the community of Khlong Naew Likhit, where the prevalence of drugs tends to increase. Especially in the youth and working age groups, some people enter the drug cycle. 2) Empowering the people to improve drug safety. White Community activities are the creation of drug-free areas that emphasize the participation of people in all sectors of the community to prevent and reduce the spread of drugs. 3) Empowering the people to improve the community to be safe from drugs by designing and implementing drug prevention activities, including creating surveillance groups, enhancing skills and knowledge, organizing training on drug problems, and strengthening community leaders to increase their potential to work effectively.

The knowledge from this research includes analyzing problems and opinions of the community by examining drug problems, empowering the people by enhancing skills and knowledge, organizing training on drug problems, and strengthening community leaders.