A Dissertation Submitted to Mzumbe University Dar es Salaam Campus College in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for Award of the Degree of Master of Business Administration in Corporate Management (MBA-CM) of Mzumbe University
The objective of this research was to determine the impact of illicit drugs prevalence amongst secondary school students in Kinondoni Municipality. Drug abuse to the secondary students has been a detrimental not only to their health, but to academic performances. Due to limited time, energy, resources, and not to mention financial assistance, the corrective and preventive measures cannot be implemented on all students.
Yet there aren’t many studies that examined the predictors of students’ involvement in drug abuse. Thus, there is a great need for parents, teachers, policy makers, law enforcers and the education ministry to understand the basic information regarding those who are vulnerable or the high-risk group.
This study used a cross-section research design simply because data were collected once from research site.
According to the research findings it was noted that, illicit drugs are among the factors with negative impacts to the students including lost studying opportunities, deaths, accidents, crime, home violence, illness, loss of productivity due to poor academic performance and subjected to high risks due to sexual. However, a number of way were proposed by respondents to mitigate the problem like imposing severe punishment to the student proved to have been engaged on illicit drugs, cooperation among parents and teachers on fight the problem and government intervening the problem.
The conclusion drawn from these findings include the fact of prevalence of illicit drugs in the study area. The recommendations were given according to the objective to all stakeholders, students, parents and teachers. It is the hope of the researcher that, if all recommendations are worked on, then the level of secondary education can be restored.