Determinants Of Drug Usage Among Females As Perceived By Secondary School Teachers
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA]

Roles of Nigeria Government in Curbing Use of Drug
    The World Health Organisation (W.H.O) had declared that one or two main conditions must exist before a drug can be considered in need of control.
1.    The drug is known to be abuse and the effect extends beyond the users beside which the means of spreading: - Is use involve communication between illicit dealers and potential users, that is involving initiating others.
2.    A drug that is to be used for medical purposes known to have psychic or physical dependence properties. Most of the drugs (e.g. opium, heroin, hallucinogens, marijuana, comphetamines and so on) fits into one or both categories.
Drug abuse has far reaching consequences beyond the individual. Hence, the control must take each of these consequences into consideration, that is the physiological, social and psychological. International control measure should therefore aim at.
-    Limiting legal narcotics to medical uses.
-    Controlling legal crops of narcotizing plants  
-    Licensing legal producers and accounting for what they manufacture.
-    Tracking down illegal producers and peddlers. But unfortunately international control measures are not always successful because of illegal manufacture and distribution.
One approach which is in common use today in the law. Under the federal law, possession of marijuana for personal use is a felony. Conviction means a few years in jail of not more than ten. Today in this country peddlers of hard drugs are meant to face firing squad if found guilty. Are these restrictions really working or are they yielding positive result is an important question. What actually happens is your guess too. Rather than depend too much on these laws, much parental efforts should be directed at the young innocent youths and the abusers. The alternative approach, therefore, is that all tiers of governments, national state and local governments should organize seminars, workshops and discussion for every person on or group of person, including teachers, parents, opinion leaders on drug, it use and danger.
The solution to drug problems should be every body’s affair specifically, ways of enhancing correct knowledge, desirable attitudes and behaviour would be through one or a combination of: the following: -
a.    Involvement of children, youths, parents and teacher in group seminars or discussions highlighting tends, social, psychological and physical effects of the substance of drug.
b.    Showing of films, radio and television broadcasts on the outcome of drug intake and trafficking.
c.    Organizing talks and counselling by resource persons.
d.    Discussion of the problems of drug ion churches, mosques, parents teachers meetings and other school – community government organization. For the better implementation of the approaches described above, the enactment and Law Enforcement Agency has enforced that, laws forbidding the use of certain brand of drugs, cigarettes, alcohol should be enacted and enforced. Recently the Federal Road Safety Corps has announced prohibition of sale of alcohol in and around motor parts in addition, educational enlightenment on road use is to be carried out by members of the commission for drivers and other road users.