Effects Of Drug Abuse On Senior Secondary School Students’ Attitude Towards Learning: A Case Of Study Of Secondary School Students In Ikenne Local Government Area Of Ogun State
Abstract
medicine abuse, inversely known as substance abuse, is the use of a substance generally fornon-medical purposes which pose physical, emotional, social and internal pitfalls to the druggies. medicine abuse penetrates across every phases of humanity, but more pervasive among adolescents and middle-aged youths. The study examines the goods of medicine abuse on elderly secondary academy stations towards learning in Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State. The study espoused the two- stage slice fashion in which 120 repliers were aimlessly named from four secondary seminaries in the study area. A well- constructed questionnaire was developed to induce data for the study via its administration to the repliers. The data were anatomized using the descriptive statistic analysis and the Pearson product moment of correlation was employed to test the thesis. Findings from the study reveal that alcohol is the commonest medicine abused by the scholars; the perceived reasons for scholars ’ engagement in medicine abuse amongst others include to reduce fear and pressure, to make- up tone regard, confidence and boldness, peer influence, capability to face crowd and trial and curiosity. likewise, a significant relationship was set up to live between medicine abuse and scholars ’ station towards literacy( r = -0.347; p<0.05). To this end, the study suggested that seminaries should acclimatize their scholars to that they will know that hard work secures success in life and they should be serious with their studies, in order to be useful to themselves, their families and the country at large.
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