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

CHAPTER FIVE
DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Introduction
    This study examined factors responsible for females’ involvement in the use of drugs as perceived by secondary school teachers of Ilorin South L.G.A. The researcher randomly selected students that participated in the study. In carrying out this study, the survey method was adopted. The instrument used was questionnaire, which consisted of 20 items. The questionnaire forms were administered to under graduates of University of Ilorin. The data collected were analyzed using the t-test and ANOVA Statistical Analysis. The hypotheses were either accepted or rejected 0.05 level of significance.
Discussion
    Table 1 to 6 present distribution of respondents by gender, age, marital status of parents, family type, religion and discipline. In table 9, item by item analyzed were presented and it was used to answer the research questions. From table 8 it can be deduced that social factors are the major factors responsible for females involvement in drug use because out of 1,092 respondents 359 strongly agreed with item under social factors. This finding could be buttressed by the finding of Rockville (2000), who finds out that the major factors responsible for females involvement in drug use could be attributed to social factors. For instance, the way drugs are advertised emphasized the fashionable and status enhancing qualities of drugs.
    According to the findings, the second may or factors responsible for females involvement in drug use in personal factor. This could be supported by the view of Dusek (1988), who stated that there are individuals that take drugs to have fun, to escape from boredom and to experience a different kind of awareness.
    The findings of this study further reflected that psychological factor was one of the major factors responsible for females’ involvement in drugs use. This could be further supported by the findings of National Institution of Justice (1995) in Canada found all that females. May abuse substances to diminish their feelings of guilt or shame or to assist denial of their aids.
    The finding of the study also reflected that family factor was one of the major factors responsible for females involvement in drug use and this could be supported with the findings of Widow (2000), who found out that females that abuse drug or in drug use and crime are more prominent in the families of drug-addict and crime. This finding could also be supported with the fact that childhood abuse, early school failure family problems or neighborhood disorganization (White & Gorman 2000). In certain subcultures drug use and crime can help achieve membership and status.
    Hypothesis one stated that there is no significant difference in the determinants of females involvement in drug use as perceived by male and females respondents. The hypothesis was tested using t-test. The result are shown on the table 9 from the results of the findings there was a significant difference between males and females respondents in their perception of factor responsible for females involvement in drugs use. It was revealed that the calculated t-value of 2.90* was greater than the critical t-value of 1.96 one can conclude that males involve in drug use than their females counterparts. These finding may be due to the fact that both male and females’ undergraduates of university agreed with the views of National Drug strategy household survey (NDSHs, 2001), which stated that females reported a lower prevalence of recent drug use than male for all types of drugs. It can also be supported by Drug Use careers of offenders (DUCO, 2003) that found out that women are generally less likely than men to drug users and are less likely than men to be charged.
    Hypothesis two stated there is no significant difference in the determinants of females involvement in drugs use as perceived by respondent on the basis of age. The hypothesis two was tested using t-test. The result was show in table 10. From the result of the findings there was no significant difference in the factors responsible for females involvement in drug use as perceive by respondents on the basis of age i.e. those that are with the range of below 21 years and 22 – 30 years.