Knowledge of Health Consequences of Psychoactive Substance Use among Senior Secondary School Students

Abstract

The rate of psychoactive substance (PAS) use in the adolescent group is increasing around the world. Drug abuse has a negative impact on students’ education especially that of secondary school students. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of psychoactive substance use and knowledge of the health consequences among secondary school students in Ogun State, Nigeria. A cross-sectional study was carried out among 528 consenting students selected using random sampling method. Data obtained using a validated modified World Health Organization’s guidelines questionnaire were analyzed with SPSS 20, p-Value ≤ 0.05 was considered significant. Majority (78.8%) were within the age group 15-18 years, males were 61.4%. Alcohol (95.0%) ranked first of all the substances been consumed among the current PAS users. Age was highly significantly associated with PAS use. Average knowledge of health consequences of PAS use was 11.5%. There is need for continuous health educational intervention to boost the respondents’ knowledge about health consequences of uses of psychoactive substances.
 Dhaka Univ. J. Pharm. Sci. 19(2): 199-205, 2020 (December)

Cannabis use in sub‐Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…Of the total articles, 24 studies were from western sub‐Saharan Africa [5, 32–53], 15 studies were from southern sub‐Saharan Africa [54–68] and 12 studies were from eastern sub‐Saharan Africa [6, 69–79]. Two studies were conducted in multiple regions [11, 80] (Table 1).…”

“…Limited data access in central sub-Saharan Africa and few numbers of publication in sub-Saharan Africa indicate the lack of sufficient information on general population-level cannabis use in the region. Only Nigeria has collected comparable prevalence data over time, and it showed an increasing prevalence in prevalence until a drop in 2020 [49,51]. The only data on the impact of COVID-19 on cannabis use in sub-Saharan Africa are from Uganda, which did not show a significant difference in prevalence before and after COVID-19 [85].…”