The Effect Of Narcotics Consumption On Students Academic Performance (A Case Study of Federal University Oye Ekiti)

ABSRACT

The effect of drug abuse on the academic pe,:formance of srudents in Federal University Oye Ekiti and their entire lives across board cannot be overemphasized. The aim of this study is to primarily explore the effect of drugs on their academic performance and to investigare if there are common drugs likely to be abused by undergraduare 's student infuoye. Drug abuse seems to undermine the ability of university undergraduates to learn. Drug also appears to contradict our values of physical wellbeing. For the sake of this stuc~v ii will be necessa,y to mention few theories that were used which include socio-cultural theory, biological, learning and so on. So111en umber of scholars has talked about rhe effect o_fn arcotics on students academic performance. A drug refers to a substance that could bring ahout change in rl,e biological function through its chemical action (okoye 2001) it is also considered as a substance that modifies perception, cognition mood behavior and general body function(balogun2006).the chapter three looks at methodology explored .sample size, study population, instrument used and data analysis. The study population is FUOYE students primary and secondary sources were used in collecting the data. Findings have shown that the common drugs FUOYE students take are tramado/, s.k and so on. Studies have equally shown that the effect of drug abuse on student's academic pe,formance is negative.