Abstract

Drug abuse is one of the health issues affecting Nigerian youth and has raised concerns among those involved in education. The associated social effects of drug abuse on undergraduate students are overwhelming. This study is therefore designed to investigate the effects of drug abuse among the undergraduate students at the Federal University of Technology, Akure thereby leading to the determination of the proportion of undergraduate students who abused drugs using the randomized response technique proposed by Warner in survey sampling. The data for the study is primary data acquired from the administration of well-structured survey questionnaires to the undergraduate students of the University. Furthermore, the proportions of undergraduate students who indulged in various sensitive attributes that can enhance drug abuse and their associated standard errors were estimated for a preassigned probability ‘p’ respectively. The outcomes as presented in the summary table 17 show that alcohol use was the most abused drug among the undergraduate students while peer group was the prime factor that contributed significantly to the abuse of drugs.