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Causes Of Drug Abuse And It's Effects Among Secondary School Students
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Drug abuse
is a social problem of great concern in our society like other social
problems; drug abuse has been attracting the attention of sociologist,
political scientist, psychologist, philosophers, criminologist and
social workers.
Social worker in particular, have been working
relentlessly to provide solutions to the problems posed by drug abuse,
to this end, several causal explanations, causes affect as
recommendations through drug abuse could at least the reduced in the
society. But since the aim has not been fully accomplished, the need for
more research work on the problems becomes more imperative coupled with
the facts that the problem seriously affects the social, economic,
political and academic lives of drug users in both rural and urban
areas.
Drug abuse has far reaching effects on the progress and
aspiration of the youth of all lends. It determines how far the
students can benefit from the available opportunities provided by the
homes, the government and the community.
Various definition
and explanations attempted is that the age of the students is usually
between the ages of 15 years and 18 years old.
Drug abuse is
referred to as substance abuse which involves the repeated and excessive
use of chemical substances to achieve certain effects. These substances
may be street or illicit drugs illegal due to their potentials for
addition and abuse. They can also be drug obtained with a prescription,
use of the pleasure rather than medical reasons.
The most
unfortunate victims of these drug are the students (youths) these acts
or activities are never in conformity to the general accept modes of
behavior in the society.
Drug abuse can lead to rape, armed
robbery, cultism, murder, theft, fighting e.t.c drug abuse leads to a
wide range of anti social tendencies as mentioned above. It starts
during the adolescent stage where the child feels it s fun to get
involved in drugs and can develop into a chronic addict and can cause
untimely
Drug: is an illegal substance that some people take, smoke, inject e.t.c for the physical and mental effects it has.
Abuse: is it to take or use something in a way that is wrong or harmful.
Drug
abuse: a drug is said to be abused when its use is not pharmacological
or physically necessary it can also be used to describe a situation
whereby the dosage of a given drug is exceeded by the user.
Addict: a person who is unable to stop using harmful drugs.
Psychiatrist: a doctor who studies and ill mental illness.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research is carried out to critically review the causes of drug abuse among secondary school students in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin City as a case study. To make this research a reality questionnaires were administered to collect information, the information was collected from different places. The motive behind the research on the causes of drug abuse among secondary school students stem from the belief that students now engage more on drugs than before. This research also seek to ... Continue reading---
