• PREVALENCE AND PATTERNS OF PHYCHO ACTIVE SUBSTANCE USE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS


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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study was designed to determine prevalence and patterns of Psychoactive Substance useamong Senior Secondary School Students in Dala Local Government Area (LGA), KanoState Nigeria. The study adopted a cross sectional descriptive survey design. Simple randomsampling procedure was used to select two Secondary Schools out of the ten GovernmentSenior Secondary School in Dala LGA, of Kano State. Both Schools have a combinedpopulation of 2293 students made up 1202 boys and 1096 girls. The two Schools samplewere Government Secondary School Kurna Asabe for boys and Government SeniorSecondary School ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]The youths in Nigeria like many countries of the world are increasingly developing addictionto psychoactive substances. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA, 2011)collected drugs use and abuse data from schools, records of patients admitted at mental healthinstitutions for drug problems and interview of persons arrested for drug offences. The resultshowed that youths constitute the high risk group for drug trafficking and abuse. Friends andschool mates account for about 90% of the source of influence of the use and abuse ofvarious psychoactive substances. In Nigeria, alcohol and cig ... Continue Reading