Background: In the twenty-first century, female adolescents’ use of intravenous psychoactive substances has become widespread worldwide. For instance, statistics show that 155 and 250 million people between the ages of 15-64 used intravenous psychoactive drugs as of 2008. Examples of intravenous psychoactive drugs taken by people with 15-64 include; Amphetamines, non-prescribed psychoactive prescription drugs, cannabis, cocaine, and opiates. As a result of the preceding, the use of intravenous psychoactive drugs among Female adolescents is a common phenomenon in the 21st century. Aim: To undergo a systematic review on IV psychoactive drugs use, prevalence, causes and effects among adolescent females. Design: A systematic review. Data Sources: Systematic search for worldwide published literature from databases like google scholar, Emerald, PubMed, and science-direct. Study Eligibility Criteria: Articles that are published in English, primary research and studies published within the last 10 (ten) years (2013-2023). Results: From the 2000 published papers that was found, 1700 publications were screened out owing to duplicate data. In addition, 60 publications were eliminated because they did not have appropriate information for this current study, and 200 papers were eliminated because of erroneous information. For being overly shallow, 29 publications were ignored. In the end, this study included 11 (eleven) publications. Conclusion: Worldwide, there is a high prevalence of female adolescents using intravenous psychoactive drugs. The causes include feelings of helplessness following family separation, poor academic performance, a physical environment, prior substance use, recreational alternatives, socialisation issues, and inadequate organisational support. Cardiovascular illness, psychological diseases like anxiety, dependency, mood, and psychosis disorders, as well as various Hormonal Contraceptives, are all consequences of intravenous psychoactive drug use among female teenagers (HC). According to this study, more Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET), family counselling, and cognitive-behavioural therapy should be used to free female adolescents from the shackles of intravenous psychoactive substance use.

Background: Substance abuse in various parts of the globe appears to be evolving in different patterns and this keeps threatening the physical as well as socioeconomic well-being of homes, societies and countries. Aim: This study investigated the pattern of substance use among patients on drug treatment at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. Methodology: NENDU data from the Drug Unit from January 2018 to February 2020 were investigated after ethical clearance in this descriptive retrospective study. Data analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 20. Results: Results revealed that out of a total of 104 registered patients, cannabis was the most declared drug with 42.3% use. Cannabis was also the most frequently used drug (28 persons used it daily) followed by alcohol (8 persons used it daily). Street dealers constituted the readiest source with 96 (92.3%) while poly-drug was higher with 76 (73.1%). The majority of respondents using substances/drugs were males 98 (94.2%), singles 93 (89.4%), and college degree holders 73 (75.0%). Conclusion: From the conclusion of this study, there are emerging varied patterns of substance use. Hence, there is a need for increased sensitization and health education programs to curb the trend.