CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG USE AND ABUSE AMONG YOUTH IN RURAL COMMUNITIES OF KONDUGA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BORNO STATE
Fatima Bukar Bababe, PhD
Volume 5 Issue 1
Abstract
This study examines the factors motivating youths to engage in drug abuse in Rural Communities of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State. This study also identified the consequences of drug on human health it also gives some strategies and recommendation as the best path to tackle the challenges of drug abuse in our society. This paper reviewed several related literatures and theoretical perspective to understand the root causes that motivating the youths to drug abuse in our community, despite government effort to curb the menace to the minimum level. Substance abuse has been pandemic confronting Nigeria. The phenomenon of drug abuse has tremendously increased in recent years. It is fact that drug abuse and it related antisocial behavior has consumes the entire population of society to the extent that it requires collective to address the situation, hence the youth are the future leader. A group discussion (FGD) was used to generate data required from the respondent (Drug Abuse). A statistical method of simple frequency distribution and percentages were applied to distinguish the respondent’s responses on the phenomena under study. The study findings revealed that peer-groups, joblessness, frustration, poverty, broken home, poor socialization, access, to the drugs e.t.c are the factors motivating the youths’ minds to involve in drug abuse. Keywords: Drug use, Drug Abuse, Youth, Communities and Konduga
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