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

Although crime rates are much lower for females than for males, females criminality is believed to be more closely related to their drug use than it is for males (Pollock, 1999) studies of females in prison show that

–    over half of females in Queens had prisons had a history of injecting drug use and two-thirds had used illegal drugs regularly in the preceediing 12 months (Hockings & Other 2002).
-    61% of females’ prisoners in Victoria war diagnosed with a drug or alcohol dependence disorder at the time of arrest, predominantly opiate and abenzodiaopine dependence (Denton, 1994).
-    A survey in NSW prisons found that 73% if females and 64% of males had used an illegal drug at sometime in the past, female drug users we more likely than makes to use drugs on a daily basis to be using drugs while in prison (Bullar, 1997).
-    59% of females in NSW prisons were under the influence of drugs at the time of the offence, iwo-thicks of these were under the influence of heroin (Kevin, 1994).
-    About 60% of females in US prisons had used drug in the month prior to their current offences, one in four were under the influence of drug at the time of the offence (Ekstrand, 1999).
-    Drugs or alcohol played a role in their involvement in crime for 70% of females in Canada, while half were under the influence of drugs or alcohol when they committed their current offence (Shawela 1991).
-    40% of sentenced women and 50% of women on remand were dependent on drugs in the year before entering British prisons, females arrestees had higher rate of opiate, amphehmine and benzodiazepine use than did men spent more money on drugs (Home Office 2002).
Participant at a National Workshop on hard drug abuse in November 1990, warned that drug abuse already constitute a may or health problem in Nigeria.
 The nine state association of lady pharmacist have taken rehabilitation of females’ drug addicts and are planning a center for drug victims.
Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and Centre for Research and Information on substances abuse (CRISA), National Orientation Agency (NOA) have contributed immensely to the curbing of misuse of drugs among youths.
In 1991, also NDLEA discovered that people of (10 – 35 years). Sixteen to thirty-five years are mostly engaged in drug misuse. Also it shows that youths and adolescents between the ages of sixteen and thirty five years constitute the high list groups with females getting more involved.
Consequences of Use of Drugs among Youth with Particular Reference to the Females Low Case
    Generally speaking, effect of drug abuse include acute intoxication and behaviour arising from its mental and physical disorder induce by harmful usage, injurious consequence to other financial cost of the substances abused to socio-economic result of diverting capital and labourment for development to the production and distribution of these drug abuse. It now becomes obvious that the drug abuse have serious negative consequences for the progress, development and security of our nation and the over all well being of our females youths.