The effectiveness of school-based substance abuse prevention program on secondary school students attitudes towards benylin with codeine in Katsina, Nigeria

Substance abuse prevention in schools is a top priority in most countries and other studies have shown that prevention programs have the potential of preventing or delaying students’ substance usage. Some preventive programs are effective while others are not effective. The objective of this study is to find out the effect of Enlightenment campaign program (Substance abuse prevention program) on the Attitudes between the groups of students towards the abuse of Benylin with Codeine. A stratified random sampling procedure was used in selecting the sample. 900 respondents were selected from 9 randomly selected secondary schools in the three senatorial zones in Katsina state, Nigeria. The respondents were grouped in to 5 different groups, group 1 are the respondents that attend the program every week, group 2 are the respondents that attend the program once in two weeks, group 3 are the respondents that attend the program once in a month, group 4 are the respondents that attend the program once in a term and group 5 are the respondents that never attend the program. The results revealed that there were statistical significant differences at p <.05 between the five groups compared, with regard to the effectiveness of substance abuse preventive program. Study results demonstrated the effectiveness of a substance abuse prevention program integrating the TPB.