SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOURS AMONG IBIBIO YOUTHS: LATENT DYSFUNCTION OF SELECTED COMMUNITIES
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Cultural values have the capacity to influence people‟s attitudes toward substance abuse and their risk of experimentation with psychoactive substances. Substance abuse is related to the cultural values of society. Abbott and Chase (2008) posit that socio-cultural beliefs can shape the approach to and behaviour regarding substance use and abuse. According to Soto et al. (2011), many studies show that traditional cultural values influence adolescents‟ attitudes and beliefs, which in turn influence their health risk behaviours (for example, cigarette, alcohol, and drug use) According to their report, there exists few studies which show how specific cultural values can be or operate as protection against substance use (Unger et al., 2002; 2006; Castro et al., 2007).
Heath (2001) is of the opinion that culture plays a central role in forming the expectations of individuals about potential problems they may face with drug use. Substance use and abuse is found to be rooted in culture of the people (Peters, 2019). According to Jiloha (2009), drug abuse is a complex phenomenon, which has various social, cultural, biological, geographical, historical and economic aspects. Jiloha further maintained that apart from cultural practices, the disintegration of the old joint family system, absence of parental love and care in modern families where both parents are working, decline of old religious and moral values etc lead to a rise in the number of adolescent drug addicts who take drugs to escape hard realities of life. According to Effiong and Agha (2020), early intervention strategies can mitigate psychosocial ill health. Some strategic interventions include social intervention, psychosocial intervention, medical intervention, advocacy, and community-based rehabilitation.
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