Drug and Alcoholic Abuse Among the Youths
CHAPTER ONE
- OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of the study is to access the socio-economic causes and challenges of drug and alcoholic abuse among the youths in Agege Local Government area of Lagos State. The general purpose is to examine the socio-economic causes and challenges of this phenomenon.
The specific objectives are:
- To determine the causes of deviant behavior as exhibited by the youths.
- To investigate the causes of cultural and religious barriers to youths deviant behavior in the society.
- Assessment of government attitude towards availability, distribution and access of controlled drugs by the youths.
- To advance solutions to the problems of drugs and alcoholic abuse among the youths.
- To contribute new facts and knowledge to academic field.
- The consequences of the activities to the general public.
- Intervention methods to eradicate and clean up the problem of drug abuse and youth drinking.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
IINTRODUCTION
Drug abuse is one of the social problems that affects everyone, everywhere, either directly or indirectly and children are no exception. (Mabeyo, 2010:8). Drug abuse attraction may be cultivated from early beginning of children lives, either indirectly during pregnancy life or directly during post natal life. The interaction theory centers around the assumption that through interaction with peers and social learning is when the child learns by his own will on how to use drugs and other anti-social behavior which is in the surrounding environment where the child lives, (Possi, 1996:118) mentioned that the learning theory “holds that opportunities for a person to use drugs are generated by his association with the users. Thus a person finds support and various reinforcing agents from his peers and becomes a member in the group. Interactional theories include conforming to peer group expectations where drug usage is part of the expected behavior, along with certain tasks in music, clothes and leisure activities.” Drug is any medical or chemical substance that when taken into the body by any means causes a change in the body. (Kilonzo,1996:70). Drug abuse is the sporadic or persistence excessive use of any chemical or substance for any reason other than its acceptable medical purposes which may lead to dependence on drugs has been defined by emotional problem as estates and sometimes also as physical, resulting from the interaction between a living organism and a drug characterized by behavioral and other responses that always include a compulsion to take the drug on continuous or periodic and sometimes to avoid the discomfort of its absence, (Kilonzo,1996:170). An addict is someone who cannot stop using drugs. Diagnosis of substances or drug abuse is determined by the effects of drug use has on an individual functioning, child has to experience one or more of four symptoms related to their drug use within the past year. That is failure to meet obligation of going to school or home, having legal problems like arrested for public intoxication, interpersonal problems like fighting with schoolmates, giving out bad words, etc. Use of one or more substances to meet the intended goal, withdrawal symptoms, that is when one is not using the substance he gets effects such as shakes pain, diarrhea and sniffing. Unsuccessful efforts to cut down decrease of usual activities and to continue use despite of persistence physical or psychological problem (http:/www.forcon.ca/learning/drug-abuse.html). History of drug abuse is an old as that of mankind itself. Human beings have always had a desire to eat or drink substances that make them feel relaxed, stimulated or euphoric.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to drug and alcoholic abuse among the youths
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain drug and alcoholic abuse among the youths. In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of drug and alcoholic abuse among the youths
Summary
This study was on drug and alcoholic abuse among the youths. Six objectives were raised which included: To determine the causes of deviant behavior as exhibited by the youths, to investigate the causes of cultural and religious barriers to youths deviant behavior in the society, Assessment of government attitude towards availability, distribution and access of controlled drugs by the youths, to advance solutions to the problems of drugs and alcoholic abuse among the youths, to contribute new facts and knowledge to academic field, the consequences of the activities to the general public, intervention methods to eradicate and clean up the problem of drug abuse and youth drinking. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 residents of Agege local government of Lagos state
Conclusion
The study showed that drug/alcohol abuse is a threat to the general public as well as to the youth still in school and those specifically out of school. It is therefore evident that drug/alcohol abuse among the youth must be fought in all ways so as to bring down drug/substance related problems at all levels in the society. Thus, drug/substance abuse among the youth is common and spells danger not only to the youth who abuse the drugs but also to the well being of society and whole the nation at large.
Recommendation
This acknowledges the initiatives on the ground both done by the government and non-government organizations ranging from policy making, implementation, enactment and enforcement of laws, signatory with other nations on drug abuse, advocacy by lobbying on this issue, awareness campaigns, rehabilitation and training.
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