CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Nigeria is situated in West Africa and Edo State is an Integra part of Nigeria popularly known as heart beat of the nation.
Benin is one of the biggest oldest ancient city in Nigeria where culture is highly recognized and practiced.
The incidence of drug abuse among students of tertiary institutions in Ovia South East in Benin City of Edo State, Nigeria, cannot be over emphasized. In Ovia South East in Benin City, students of tertiary institutions have limited knowledge of drug medication; they need specialist on drug prescription before they can use it. They depend on personal prescription, lack of understanding and they are ignorance of the effect of drug abuse.
Drugs are substances that we take medically to affect physiological set up our body system within some given time. The misuse or wrongly administration of such drugs without expert advice is called “Drug Abuse”. This is often practiced among students of tertiary institutions.
In Benin and other less advance cities in Nigeria, drug abuses are largely carried out without knowing the effects or implication because of some reasons:
Shyness
Bad habits
Peer groups
Sport
Broken homes
Ignorance
Illiteracy
Poverty etc
An educated, advanced, civilized city, the right or normal ways of drugs use must be legislated and enforce it on every students of tertiary institution in Ovia South East in Benin City of Edo State, Nigeria.
With education, seminars, disciplinary measures and follow the step of NAFDAC with the help of the above mentioned processes, drug abuse could be reduced among the students of tertiary institutions in Ovia South East in Benin City of Edo State, Nigeria.
Drug abuse can be defined as the misuse or wrongly administration of drugs without doctor’s prescription. It is applicable to smoking of hard drugs like india helm, marijuana, inhaling taber, cigarette, cocaine and overdose of simple drugs.
Drugs abuse is usually practiced among poor educated background, peer group, ignorance, because of poverty, students from broken homes, sports, etc. in Ovia South East in Benin City, students in tertiary institutions are not so much civilized, they normally go from their villages and towns to Lagos or Ibadan and come back to Benin. This system of primitive ways of life made them to have interest in drug abuse instead of following the normal ways all the above mentioned points made it possible for them to drugs abuse.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
There are a lot of problems militate against incidence of drug abuse among students of tertiary institutions in Ovia South East Local Government Area in Benin City. People are of opinion that highly among the problem is poverty that contributed to most drug abuse among the students, that, there is little or no sufficient money to go hospital or to visit the doctor. While some people raised objection to it, that the problem is poor educational background of the family, others concluded that broken homes, lack of understanding can be a curse to drug abuse. People too were very inquisitic to know why the students of tertiary institution in Ovia South East have interest in drug abuse.
Majority of the people in the Local Government Area and in Benin City, complained of lack of rules and regulations and some are saying that there should be law and enforcement on any students’ caught with drugs and this will stop or reduce the problem of drug abuse in the local government and Benin as whole.
All the above argument, suggestions and objectives of the people in Ovia South East Local Government brought about the researcher to raised the below research questions.
The following are used:
Are students from poor home more prone to drug abuse than students from rich home?
Are students from broken home more prone to drug abuse than normal home?
Do students from poor educational background?
Is ignorance one of the causes of drug abuse?