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This study inquires into some of the factors that might predispose the use and abuse of drugs among secondary school learners in a township school. The objective of this research is to identify these factors and to offer a few suggestions on how the abuse may be prevented. A quantitative research strategy is used and a document analysis technique has been incorporated to collect the data. Various hypotheses are stated. The independent variables used are: gender; age group; educational category; distance from school; and caregiver. The dependent variables used are: alcohol abuse; marijuana abuse; cigarette smoking; other drug abuse; total number of abuses; and outcomes at school. Statistically significant relationships are found between the following variables: distance from school and cigarette smoking; distance from school and other drug abuse; caregiver and marijuana abuse; and caregiver and total number of abuses.

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Equine.tberapy is a new form of therapeutic horse riding 1bal purports to enhao.ce the stimufation of the vestibular and som:lfOSellSOry systems dJrougb processes of cortical sensory integIatioD. WIth tcgard 10 tbeir neuropsychological profile, Toutctte syndrome c:hildtcI1 often IIWIit'est with. executive timc:tiolliDg deficits aaribUlablc to disruptions in fioDtal 1imctioniDg Since equine-tberapy focuses on S1imulation and augmeatation of frontal integrative proc:csscs. an intervention of rhis uaturc may iDflucDce the executive timc:tioning of this group. The purpose of this SIUdy was to c:xplotc whether an equine•tbernpy intervention will infIueuee oeuropsychologicnl (executive functioo.) outCOmes in a group with Toumt= syndrome. The sample ~ of eight individuals with TOUtcItc syndrome who were assessed on a neuropsychological test battery eompristhg the WISCODSin Card Sorting Test, Stroop Test, Rey Complex: Figure Test, Tr.ill Making Test Raven's Matrices. and Symbol Digit Test. The SI:ltistical analysis inclic:tted significant differences on the WISCODSin Card Sorting Test. Stroop Test and SYJDbol Digit Modalities Test. These c:h:mge:s suggest that ~ may augment seIfcorrective $Ir.Itegics. sel.ecIlve attention. v.iSllal• associative and visuo-molOr integration abUlties in Toutctte syndrome. The results show 1bal the stimulation of vestibular and somatosensory systems may ealwlc:e the integrative abilities of the fionllil cortex: lIS manifested in the cognitive performance iDctcmenlS.