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Influence Of Drug Abuse On Students’ Academic Performance
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CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
Preamble
The focus of this chapter is to review the literature on the influence of Drug abuse on the Academic Performance of secondary school students in Ilorin metropolis.
However, the review will be carried out in the following related areas of study.
i. Nature and Concept of Drug Abuse
ii. Classification of Hard Drug
iii. Reason for Drug Abuse
iv. Influence of Drug Abuse on Academic performance
v. Counseling for Drug Abuse
vi. Summary of Literature Review.
Nature and Concept of Drug Abuse
Drug has been in existence for as long as man has needed a cure. According to (Richard Lovett 2008), a drug is any substance (other than food that provides nutritional support) that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue, causes a physiological change in the body. World Health Organization (WHO 2004) defined drug as any substance or product that is used or intended to be used to modify or explore the physiological system or pathological state in the benefit of the recipient
(Lewinsohn et al 2007) defined a drug as any product other than food or water that affects the way people feel, think, see, and behave. It is a substance that due to its chemical nature affects physical, mental and emotional functioning. It can enter the body through chewing, inhaling, smoking, drinking, rubbing on the skin or injection.
The advance learners dictionary by (A.S Hornby 2000) defines drug as an illegal substances that some people smoke, inject, inhale, e.t.c to give them pleasant or exciting feelings.
The Nigeria Certificate in Education course book on social studies defined drug as “any substance used in the composition of medicineâ€, some when used under medical prescription have healing power to the consumer.
From the above definitions, it can be seen that drugs are chemical substances that interact with the complex biochemical system of the human body so as to achieve good health. The advent of drug abuse in our society dates back to ages.
(Alder et al 2011) noted that drug usage that reflected the social or political nature of man’s development occurred during the Roman era and has since been rising. According to him, it reached a climax during the period between the French revaluation through the Napolamine wars up to World War II and beyond to a layman means the use of any drug to the point it becomes injurious to health.
According to world health organization (W.H.O 2008), in the second of the 20 – century, defined drug addiction as “the habitual compulsive use of any narcotic drug in a way that goes in contrary to the medical prescription.
Drug abuse amongst the global youth population has become a serious problem affecting everyone. Addiction leads many people, young people prominent amongst them, into downward spiral of hopelessness that in some cases ends fatal. They range from glue-sniffing street children and teenage ecstasy users, to hard core heroin and cocaine addicts (Nacada, 2009). Drug abuse is responsible for lost wages, destruction of property in schools, soaring health care costs and broken families. It is a problem which affects us all as parents, children, teachers, government officials, taxpayers and workers
Classification of Hard Drugs
Drugs have both positive and negative connotation. The positive connotation explains the natural and synthetic forms of drug as well as the crucial role played on their medical services. The negative connotation has to do with the pattern of misuse, abuse and addition of drugs in the modern society. This study intends to make references only to hard drugs. Hard drugs are defined as those chemical substances which have harmful effect on the biochemical system of human being.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate the influence of drug abuse on the academic performance of secondary school students in Ilorin, Kwara state, Nigeria. The instrument used for the study was a questionnaire tagged “Influence of Drug abuse on students’ Academic Performance Questionnaire (IDASAPQ). It consisted of 20 items which elicited necessary information from 200 students in Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin. Frequency counts and percent ... Continue reading---
QUESTIONNAIRE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]UNIVERSITY OF ILORINFACULTY OF EDUCATIONDEPARTMENT OF COUSELLOR EDUCATIONINFLUENCE OF DRUG ABUSE ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRE (IDASAPQ) Dear Respondent,This questionnaire is designed to obtain data on the influence of drug addiction on students’ academic performance as perceived by Kwara State. You are therefore requested to provide very sincere responses to each of the items. Kindly note that your responses will be treated with utmost confidentially as the ... Continue reading---
LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLESTable 1: Classification of Hard Drugs Table 2: Distribution of Respondents by Gender, Age, Religion, ATP, ATF and Tor Table 3: Means of Influence of Drug Addiction Rank – ordered Table 4: Results of t-test comparing Male and Female Respondents’ perception Table 5: Results of t-test Comparing Christian and Islamic Religion of Respondents perception Table 6: ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle page Approval page Dedication Acknowledgement Table of content List of Tables Abstract CHAPTER ONE: BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYIntroduction State of problem Purpose of the study Significance of the study Research Questions Research Hypotheses Scope and Limitation the Study Operational Definition of Terms CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURENature and Normal use of Drug Classification of Hard Drugs • ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]The study will commence by analyzing how to problem of drug abuse came into being. In this aspect, the study will then proceed to show the effect of drug abuse on student’s academic performance. Finally, the study intends to draw conclusion and make useful suggestion and recommendations in order to combat the menace of drug abuse. Operational Definition of Terms Abuse: is the improper usage or treatment of an entity, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in ma ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Reliability: Reliability of the instrument according to (Neil R. Carlson
2009) refer Reliability in statistics and psychometrics as the overall
consistency of a measure. A measure is said to have a high reliability
if it produces similar results under consistent conditions. "It is the
characteristic of a set of test scores that relates to the amount of
random error from the measurement process that might be embedded in the
scores. A test – retest method was employed to ascerta ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Table 2 shows the Means and Rank orders of influence of drug abuse on students’ academic performance. From the table, Item 1 (“Drug abuse can lead to poor concentration in the classâ€) ranked first (1st) with a mean score of 3.285. Item 13 (“Drug abuse can lead to frequent fatigueâ€) ranked 2nd with a mean score of 3.100, while item 15th (“Drug abuse can lead to poor spelling habitâ€) and Item 20 (“Drug abuse can lead to not being able to understand ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Conclusion This study has undertaken to find for the influence of drug abuse on academic performance of secondary school students in Ilorin. Based on the finding from this study and its subsequent discussion, the following constitute the study and its subsequent discussion, the following constitute the study’s conclusion.Table 2 showed the Mean and Rank orders of influence of drug abuse on students’ academic performance. From the table, Item 1 (“Drug abuse can lead t ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAbel. F.I (1974), The use of Indian hemp & drugs, among secondary school students in Lagos, Nigerian University press.Alfred, B. Williams, G. and payne, W.J.A (1969) “medical chemistry†new York London, page 3-47 published, designed and printed by tap printing works, new York.Ajila C.O; Causes of Drug Abuse among school adolescents in Ondo State. Nig. Rev. Afr. Affairs, 6: 45-55, 1992.Adelekan, M.L Abiodun, O.A, Imoukhom Obayan, A.O, Oni G.A., Ogunremi, O.O Psychosocial Cor ... Continue reading---
