CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG STUDENTS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Study
Globally, ancestors explored the properties of every plant, fruit, root and nut they found. The eventual use of these products would be partly determined by pharmacological effects, the nature, intensity and duration of these strange and desirable new experiences and partly by the particular groups pattern of living (Kambo, 2005). The Latin of South American of instance took cocaine which had a central role in their religious and social system throughout civilization which stretched from AD 1200 to 1500.(Wolmer, 2010) over the past two decades, the use of illegal drugs and misuse of therapeutic drugs have spread at unprecedented rate and have penetrated every part of the globe. No nation has been spared from the devastating problem caused by drug abuse.Drug have been defined differently people. A drug is any substance which when taken into the living organism may alter one or more of its function. The world health organization (WHO 2003) defined drug as any substances other than those required for maintenance of normal health, which when taken into the living organism, may modify one or more of its functions (Ghodse, 2003).
In medicine, drugs refers to any substances with the potential to prevents or cure diseases. Drugs can be legal or illegal. Drug abuse refers to non medical use of drugs. A substance is considered abused if it is deliberately used to introduce physiological or psychological effects or both for purpose other than therapeutic ones and when the use contributed to health risks or some combination of these.
I over the past two decades, the abuse of drugs in Kenya has rapidly increased and risen to unprecedented level and no part of the country is safe from the scourge (Ngesuet al, 2008).
Drug and substance abuse is linked to the rising crime rate HIV/AIDS prevalence, school unrest, family dysfunction, poverty and other malaise in the country. At the greatest peril are the youth who are deliberately and tactically recruited into the drug culture through personal factors, uncontrolled media influences and social exposure (National Agency for the Campaign Against Drug Control Programme, (NCADA), 2006).
Drug abuse effect the general population with the youth being most affected studies have shown that the age of indulgence has dropped to as low as 4 years, with many reasons given for this (Oketch 2008).
The problem of drug abuse is associated with introduction of foreign ways. Aslo parents abdicating their role of bringing up children in an atmosphere of love and leaving almost everything at the mercy of house help and televisions.
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CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG STUDENTS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
