Understanding Drug Abusers with HIV/AIDS through Qualitative Research

Abstract

This study analyzise the background of peoplers situation non drugs dependency, their attitudes emerge after infected by nHIV/AIDS, and ways to give self-meaning to themselves and ntheir surroundings including actions to deal with their life nproblems. Style explanatory theory from Peterson a Seligman (1987) which is based on internal external dimension, nstability-unstability/transient dan global-specific dimentions nwas used. This study was a in qualitative research with ncase study method. The objective is to explore the understanding of drug users with HIV/AIDS. The outcome from this research shows that most of the subjects were using external, stabilized and global patterns nfrom explanatory theory in norder to understand their dependecies on drugs and how hard for them to release from it ev enthough they knew that is harmful. The drug users who were infected by HIV/AIDS were hard, to understand their situations. This was caused by nmany factors such as social support, their physical and psychological conditions, public stigma that limit ways to facing ntheir life. The constraints in this research were that all subjects were from one rehabilitation centre. Whereas, other understanding can be different in other nrehabilitation centres which is women partic ipant, or people who were not under nany rehabilitation program. Furthermore, the researcher found nthat a sense of responsibility to oneself can be a moral nsupport for any subject to understand his/her needs and conditions. n