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Role Of Radio Nigeria Enugu In Combating Drug Abuse Among University Students
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According to drug and alcohol service formation system (2002) poly drug,
alcohol was most common substance reported to be abused by76 percent,
the second was marijuana by 65 percent and other drugs by 26 percent and
over half by fifty six percent of all admissions for treatment in
publicity funded facilities in 2002, reported more than one substance
abuse. Young-adult admissions were more of poly drug abuse, then older
adult admission were more of alcohol according to the report.
As
pointed out in Anekwe Herietta (2004), the Yaba psychiatric hospital, in
1984, treated 234 patients and in 1987, the figure climbed to 12,587,
in 1989. It increased to 70,316. But these seems to be just a tip of the
iceberg as this does not adequately resented the ugly situation as
witnessed in most of the streets and federal highways in our country,
Nigeria.
Drug abuse is one type of deviant behavior that was
previously, exclusively associated with the western societies. This
problem has been in existence before the eighties, but today the footage
has turned into a frightening reality, a monster that has best ridden
our country like a leach and refused to let go while gradually spreading
its tentacles.
Drug abuse is not just about the creative with a
vacant look in its fast blinking eyes, a twittering body and an altered
without taking is about the student who cannot read without taking
unsweetened coffee, kola-nut or pills. Is about filter lover who turns
to the bottle for salvation, the business executive who must smoke to be
able to work, the retrenched worker who floods his veins with smoke to
forget his sorrows and adventures, who tries to get hick because others
are doing it. Thus, drug abuse is not just about mislaying of drugs but
the use of any chemical substance that has an effect on the body and
they include, smoke cannabis, and heroine, cocaine, from the hemp plant,
(cannabis satiua).
Nigeria has decided to indulge in drug abuse and
there is nothing the country has to show for it. Most parents in
Nigeria today in their bid to make both earns, meet, searching for
greener pastures, always abandon and neglect the power welfare of their
wards and children and expose them to the “unofficial†assistance of so
called house-maids.
This ugly incident will psychologically depress
such children there by giving rise to child abuse which is an off-shot
of drug abuse.
Without minding words, such youths will end up in
taking solace in some illicit hard drugs mentioned above for their
survival in life. With this sad development, the society is being
gradually and systematically ruined uncontrollably there, by destroying
the moral values to the Nigeria policy via her youth. Drug abuse is a
fatal past time Nigerians have decided to indulge in and made a
companion.
In the past and in the present, there have been
advertisements, campaigns, announcements, and a public outery against
certain hard drugs, their effects and dangers through different media
like Television, Radio, Newspaper, Magazines and Bill boards with such
slogan as “say no to drugs, drugs kill,†“a drug free child is the pride
of the parents,†“lend a hand in ridding Nigeria of hard drugsâ€, “will
you try anything?. You may never get off the hook†“aviod drug
trafficking. You may end up behind bars†and so many others. The above
slogans and many similar ones are some examples of the propaganda
against drug and drug trafficking both from government and private
agencies to preserve agencies to preserve life rather than to destroy.
However
this research is aimed at knowing role or functions of radio of Nigeria
of combating against drug abuse, in particular reference to ESUT
undergraduates.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The researcher in this work focused on the roles of Radio Nigeria, Enugu in combating drug abuse among University Students. To achieve this aim, research objectives were constructed to guide the researcher in her study. Survey research method was used for the study. The population was the students of Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Agbani campus, and this made it possible for the researcher to select an appropriate sample size of 320 respondents. Using the questionnaire, the re ... Continue reading---
