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Effect Of Drug Abuse On Nigeria Youths
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1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
1. H0: Drug abuse has not significantly affected Nigerian Youths
H1: Drug abuse has significantly affected Nigerian Youths
ii. H0: No good control measures have been put in place to check drug abuse among youths in Nigeria
H1: Good control measures have been put in place to check drug abuse among youths in Nigeria
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
The
study will be of immense benefit to the youths, the state government
and the federal government of Nigeria in addressing the issue related to
problem of drug abuse on the family, youth and general society
The
study would also contribute to the knowledge Lauina (theory) discovered
in existing relevant literature in the field thereby enabling government
and non-governmental organization to find a possible solution to drug
abuse.
In other words, it will provide scholarly information for
further studies. More importantly the study will come up with a
suggested program, that when put into consideration the problem of drug
abuse affecting the family would be brought to the barest minimum
1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The study the effect of drug abuse on Nigeria youths will cover the whole of surulere local government, Lagos state.
1.8 LIMITATION OF STUDY
FINANCIAL
CONSTRAINST: financial constraints tend to impede the speed of the
research in moving round the to gather resources. But the researcher was
able to get meaningful information concerning the research topic.
TIME
CONSTRAINTS: the research being a student will be involved in other
departmental activities like submission of assignments, presentation of
seminars and attendance to lecture will limit the time to arrive at the
completion of the research work but however the researcher was able to
meet up with the time allocated for the completion of the research work.
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS
The
importance of definition of terms in any academic work cannot be over
emphasized. It is therefore necessary to define some terms in this work.
Youth:
Summer (2003:1920), defines youth as “the period of time when someone
is young especially the period when someone is a teenagerâ€. From Hornby
(2000:1389), “youth is the time of life when a person is young,
especially the time before a child becomes an adultâ€.
Drug: Hornby
(2000:359), (1) “an illegal substance that some people smoke, inject,
etc. to give them pleasant or exciting feelingsâ€. (2) “a substance used
as a medicine or used in a medicineâ€. Onah (1982:2) defines drug as “any
chemical substance that has an effect upon the body or mind, by
modifying one or more of the termsâ€.
Abuse: “It is the use of
something in a way that is wrong or harmful†(Hornby, 2000:5) Drug
Abuse: Onah (1982:2), Sees it as “It is an excessive or inappropriate
use of a drug by a person; such use being considered or judged to be
illegal (immoral) by the culture and also resulting in harm to the
person or societyâ€. From Aka and Akunyili (2003:60), drug abuse refers
to drug use mainly by self-medication in a manner that deviates from
approved medical or social patternsâ€.
Alcohol: Hornby (2000:26),
“Drinks such as beer, wine, etc that can make people drunk or that
colourless liquid that is found in drinks such as beer, wine etc and is
used in medicines, cleaning product, etcâ€.
Alcoholism: Royce
(1989:10), “The use of alcohol that results or interferes with personal
life including school, job, family, friends, health, food, the law or
spiritual lifeâ€.
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