Effects Of School-Based Programme On Benylin With Codeine Abuse Prevention Among Secondary School Students In Katsina State, Nigeria

Kajian ini menyiasat kesan program berasaskan sekolah berkaitan pencegahan penyalahgunaan Benylin dengan Codeine dalam kalangan pelajar sekolah menengah di negeri Katsina, Nigeria. This study investigated the effects of a school-based program on Benylin with Codeine abuse prevention among secondary school students in Katsina State, Nigeria

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Adolescent’s and Drugs Abuse in Nigeria

Drug abuse continues to be the major risk behaviour among youth and adolescents, with physical and mental health complications. Despite the known risks associated with the drugs, adolescents continue using these drugs. This paper reveals the prevalence of drug abuse among adolescent’s in Nigeria, problems associated with drugs abuse and reasons why adolescents are vulnerable to drugs abuse. Drug abuse causes a lot of risk among the adolescents; it results to gang formation, armed robbery, mental illness and cultism. Studies revealed that most of the drug addicts started smoking from their young age. As they grow older they seek new thrills and gradually go into hard drugs. There was an indication that 65 percent of high school students used drugs to have good time, 54 percent wanted to experiment to see what it is like, 20–40 percent used it to alter their moods. It concludes by prescribing some ways of curbing the menace arising from drug abuse. Keywords: Adolescents, drug abuse, problem, preventio

Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences ISSN 2347-5374 (Online) Effects of School-Based program on Benylin with Codeine abuse prevention among Secondary School Student's Perceived Behavioural Control in Katsina, Nigeria

Abstract: Drug abuse prevention in schools is a main concern in most countries and other prevention programs have the potential of preventing or delaying students' drug usage. Some preventive programs are effective while others are not effective. The objective of this study is to find out the effects of Enlightenment campaign program (Drug abuse prevention program) on perceived Behavioural Control between the groups of students towards the usage of Codeine. A stratified random sampling procedure was used in selecting the sample. 900 respondents were selected from 9 randomly selected private secondary schools in the three senatorial zones in Katsina state, Nigeria. The respondents were grouped in to 5 different groups, group 1 are the respondents that attend the program every week, group 2 are the respondents that attend the program once in two weeks, group 3 are the respondents that attend the program once in a month, group 4 are the respondents that attend the program once in a term and group 5 are the respondents that never attend the program. The results revealed that there were statistical significant differences at p < .05 between the five groups compared, with regard to the effects of Drug abuse prevention program. Study results demonstrated the effectiveness of a substance abuse prevention program integrating the Theory of Planned Behaviour