Introduction Mental illness is a multi-factorial problem for it can be organic, drug-induced, psychologically or socially based. The understanding that there are cultural and psycho-social processes that are involved in the problem of mental illness and that the problem may require social and emotional approaches has led to the inclusion of social work and psychological methods of treatment in psychiatric

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Introduction The history of drug abuse in Nigeria is a catalogue of changes brought about by such factors as the civil war, unexpected oil boom that followed with its sudden increase in Gross National Product (GNP) and rapid socio—economic changes and urbanisation which also led to disintegration of the family social network, and increase in drug availability. Now the country

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Introduction In addressing this topic, I will want to look at why it is necessary to rehabilitate someone who abuses alcohol or drugs in the first place. How is a rehabilitation centre like the one we have — Our Lady of Victory Rehabilitation Centre, Sabon Gida Kanar– run? What problems do we encounter and what are our prospects. It is

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Introduction In order to discuss the problem of management drug abuse in Nigeria adequately, it is necessary to analyze the problems first- An excursion into the history of the problem and recent trends is required to get the problem into proper perspective. Up to the early 1960s drug abuse was practically unknown in this country. The first drug of abuse

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Introduction In addressing this topic, it will be more comprehensive to go a bit further to include the concept of aetiology in terms of relationship between drug and mental illness. To begin with it, it is necessary to point out that drug abuse, drug dependence or drug addiction is included in the World Health Organisation International Classification of Diseases, and

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Introduction Alcohol is one of the substances whose consumption is legally accepted. Its production is also a growing economic enterprise. Despite the legality of consumption and big, business status of the industry, alcohol consumers are placed in a peculiar position because the product is habit forming. This can place the consumer in a deviant position in society. The individual consumer

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Introduction Current researches on alcohol use suggest that the issue of alcohol use and personality, thought by some authors to produce no clear-cut pattern is far from being laid to rest. For one reason, alcohol abuse is a major problem affecting the physiological, psychological and social life of the users and abusers. Alcohol abuse is a major factor in various

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Introduction Sophistication seems to affect every aspect of life: housing, clothing, feeding and even the types of drugs kept or used by families. The baby box/tray called “ajogba” in the Yoruba speaking parts of Nigeria is a common object in homes of young, couples. The newly wed in some areas have it as one of the wedding presents and the

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Introduction Asuni’s report based on the data from the Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, noted the gradual increase in the number of psychiatric cases with alcoholic problem. Over 60% of his cases were above the age of thirty. Similarly, in hs own study of the alcoholics admitted to the University College Hospital, Ibadan, over a ten year period. Odejide noticed that

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Introduction The consumption of alcohol has been a problem for thousands of years. According to a recent edition of a leading American textbook of medicine approximately ninety percent of the adult population of the United States have drunk alcohol at least once in their lifetime. Forty to fifty percent of men have had temporary alcohol-induced problems. Ten percent of the

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