Title: Revitalizing Counseling Department: Strategy for Controlling Drug Addiction Among Students in Public Universities in Nigeria
Authors: Juliana Chinyeaka Aniche PhD, Christian Nwakanma PhD , Eke Camillius Ugochukwu PhD
Volume: 9
Issue: 6
Pages: 392-397
Publication Date: 2025/06/28
Abstract:
This paper is on revitalizing counseling department: Strategy for controlling drug addiction among students in public universities in Nigeria. University of Agriculture and environmental and sciences Umuagwo Imo State was chosen for this study among other universities in Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis guided this study. Population of this study is 6,000 which comprised 4,500 female and 1,500 male students in university of Agriculture and environmental sciences Umuagwo Imo state. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 40 male students in Chemical and mechanical engineering department departments. On the other hand, 50 female students were selected in project management and civil engineering departments, which gave sample size of 90 as sample size. Researcher developed questionnaire titled "Revitalizing counseling department in public universities: Strategy for controlling drug addiction among students in public universities in Nigeria" was used, with four rating scale of strongly agree, agree, dis agree and strongly disagree. The instrument was validated by two specialists in Business Education, Madonna University Nigeria, Okija Campus, Anambra State. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to determine the reliability coefficient at of 0.78 and 0.97, which shows that the instrument was reliable to be used for this study. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. Chi Square -test of independent was used to test the hypothesis. Findings from this study revealed varied effects of drug addiction among students in public universities Nigeria. The effects are: Public nuisance, fighting in the classroom, anger, lack of concentration, sudden sleep off, forgetfulness, among others. It was recommended from this study that government through public university vice chancellors, should equip counseling department with counseling logistics, This would enable guidance and counseling department of public universities to control drug addiction among students in public universities in Nigeria.