WHY NIGERIAN GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN ARE USING DRUGS IN ADOLESCENCE
Between the ages of 8 and 22, girls become young women. In these years, They are maturing both physically and mentally. They are forming their identity, a sense-of-self and self-worth. These adolescent years are the most significant years of development, years critical to ayoung.
Women are built differently from men. They are physically smaller. They carry less water in their bodies. They have hormone fluctuation due to menstruation.
What are the risk factors for drug use in females? And what steps can we, as parents and educators, take to prevent it ? The following five factors are the leading courses of drug abuse in girls and young women.
1. Social Pressure
One study found that many teenage girls initiate drug abuse to fit in with their peers. Another study of 11 to 13-years old girls revealed that the most popular girl believe they are under even more pressure to smoke,drink, or use drugs. According to the report, the more friends a girl has who smoke,drink, or use drugs; the likelier she is to do so herself. If five of her close friends drink alcohol,she is over seven times likelier to drink.
2. Academic Pressure
High School is Undoubtedly a time of great academic Pressure for young women. If is the time that matters most for colleges and the time in which peer group leads to abuse in drugs just because of carry over (C.O), spill over as much as financial problem.
3. Stress And Inability To Cope
While males tend to externalize their stress with aggression and delinquency, females have tendency to internalize their reaction to stress. In most cases of severe stress, young women become depressed and withdrawn. according to the survey, 41 percent of young women report their Inability to cope with stress and the main reason for using drugs.
4. Lack Of Family Involvement:
As it reported that about 75% of the ladies have Inability to do many things until they engaged to assist from family like parents, husband, brother and others, for the advice. Girls are needing more guidance than like boys if they found themselves with the lack of guidance, ladies were likelier to start drug addition.
5. Background
Drugs are considered as one of the main problems of the country's health and they coused the prevalence of some infections diseases with a chronic and recurrent nature, which is threatening the health and human life. Addiction has engaged all industrial and non-industrial societies along with malnutrition and environmental pollution so that addiction had a growing trends during the recent years in Iran.
What is the most popular drug in Africa ?
Cannabis remains the most widely used illicit substance in the African region. The highest prevalence and increase in use is being reported in west and Central Africa with rate between 5.2% and 13.5%.
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