Oxford advance learners dictionary define drug as an illegal substance that some people smoke, inject etc to give them pleasant or exciting feelings.
Kenya scout magazine (Jan 2002) define drug as a chemical substance that causes changes in mind and / or body of the person using them. They can be legal or illegal or can be medical or non medical.
Drug abuse is the repeated non medical use of potentially addictive chemical and organic substances. It includes the use of chemical in excess of normally prescribed dosage and frequently and by rotes of administration that intensifies or speeds up reactions.
Drug abuse and addiction has been a global problem of lately the world has been trying to curb this problem due to its detrimental effects on the social, health, economical and development of the world population.
In Kenya doctors and health workers have sounded an alert over the high alcohol and drug abuse especially by the youth.
A survey conducted by the NACADA showed that more than 2000 people were heroine addicts in Nairobi and Coast provinces of Kenya.
At the same time about 40% of Kenyans aged between 15 and 65 have used one type of alcoholic beverage or another and at least 13% of people from all provinces (except those from North Eastern) consume alcohol on a regular basis(Daily Nation Jan 13, 2009).
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