School Drug Control Programme
Abstract
Drug use or abuse is a public health issue bedeviling not only the school system but the
general populace in contemporary times. The problem is being handled by different
governmental and non-governmental agencies in both the national and international
spheres. The measures used to curtail the problem appears not to be yielding many
results as the problem continues and is even taking more sophisticated dimensions. The
paper was therefore advanced as a proposal to first examine some of the prevailing
factors possibly influencing drug use or abuse. An understanding of the factors will be a
leverage to avoid the behaviour of drug use or abuse using the School Drug Control
Programme. School individuals who have not experimented with drugs, at high-risk of
drug use or abuse, casual users, and habitual users (addicts) are possible beneficiaries
of the programme. The programme was presented in five detailed areas with
recommendations following.
Keywords: control, drug abuse, drug use, programme, school
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
All articles published in Advanced Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Letters (AdvPBL) are distributed under an Open Access Creative Commons License BY/4.0. Users are allowed to freely download, read, distribute the materials in any medium or format, remix, reuse the articles or quote the articles, so long as proper attribution is given to the original creators (authors and publishers). Articles may be used for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Users are free to disseminate the work to colleagues or wider scientific community. By submitting their article, the author(s) grant publisher permission to publish, including displaying, storing, copying, and reusing their content.