What is it about?
Alcohol and other drug use are common among university students. This study reported the level of alcohol and other drug involvement among students as they reported to campus for their university education. The results showed that 1 in every 4 students had used a substance of abuse by the time they reported to campus.
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Why is it important?
The findings of this study are important because they give the university management a good reference for the magnitude of alcohol and other drug use among university students. The findings will also inform the mitigation strategies for drug use prevention among the university community. They also dispel a long help belief that university environments encourage drug use behaviour. It is now proven that drug use behaviour starts in a majority of students before they join the universities.
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It is clear that alcohol and drug use behaviour starts early in adolescence. It is important for drug mitigation strategies to start early enough. Waiting to intervene when the users are already at their university level is like closing the staple when the horse has already bolted out.
Dr Catherine Mawia Musyoka
University of Nairobi
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This page is a summary of: Alcohol and substance use among first-year students at the University of Nairobi, Kenya: Prevalence and patterns, PLOS One, August 2020, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238170.
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