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

Operational Definition of Terms
Addiction: is a condition in which the addict was committed to a drug physically and mentally, had progressed steadily alone the tolerance ladder and was a societal problem.
Alcohol: It is a colorless, intoxicating and inflammable chemical compound which when absorbed consciously or unconsciously has an effect on human health and causes change in behaviour.
Drug: Drug is any chemical substance, other than food, which taken into the body system of a living organism may alter or modify one or more of its functions.
Drug Abuse or Misuses: This is a repeated misuse of drugs or chronic desire for the effects of a particular drug created in an individual. Chronic abuse of drugs can lead to socially deviant behaviour, psychological dependence.     
Drug Addiction: Is a state of chronic intoxication produced by the repeated consumption of a drug characterized by an over powering desire to continue taking the drug and to obtain supplies regardless of the cost females.
Youth: Young women who have reached the stage of puberty between the age of fifteen to thirty years.
Hallucinogenic Drug: These encompass a wide variety of drugs that produced marked aberrations of behavour. They produce a condition of great heightened sensory perception.  
Marijuana: Is a mind drug that produces fantasies. It is know by several common names such as joint, leaves, flowers and the fruiting tips are usually dried and mixed with tobacco and rolled into a cigarette for smoking.
Narcotics: Are drugs which dull sensibility, relieve pain and induce sleepiness. It is a term applied to a drug which in most people under circumstances and appropriate close change mood.
Pill and Capsules: Tablet or tiny container of medicine for swallowing, often soluble or a small piece of medicinal substance for swallowing whole (a contraceptive pill).
Tobacco: As used here refers to decided or cured leaves got from plant (Nicolianata bacum) which contains chemicals believed to have medicinal properties. Tobacco is the manufactured or synthesized product of Nicaliano tobacum leaves.
Scope of the Study
    The scope of the study is to investigate the determinant of drug usage among female as perceived by secondary school teachers of Ilorin South Local Government Area. The study aims at finding out the influence of variables Age, Gender, Religion and martial Status on the perception of respondents.