Abstract
Three hundred questionnaires distributed to parents in Ibadan indicate that drug education is a very topical issue (205 parents took part with 68.3 percent responding). Some participants (39%) had been exposed or are aware of this subject, but only 41 percent of the parents want it introduced in schools; 39 percent are against its introduction and 14.1 percent want it introduced—with reservations. 55.6 percent of the respondents think it is in the child's interest to be exposed to drug education while 25.4 percent think it is not. A number of respondents (38.1%) think parents should take primary responsibility for drug education. Parental negligence and inadequacy in providing necessary information for their children is a major contribution to the ever increasing drug abuse problems among youths in Nigeria.
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