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Article Title: The Preconditioning Factors to Drug Use and Abuse among Secondary School Adolescents in Kiamokma Division, Kisii County
by Atemi Grace Ondieki and Ondieki Zacharia Mokua

Abstract:
This paper sought to investigate the factors influencing drug use and abuse among secondary school adolescents in Kiamokama Division, Kisii District. Simple random sampling was used to select five schools out of the eleven schools in the Division. The accessible population was 120 Form Four students in the selected schools. A questionnaire was administered to the students with the help of two teachers in every school. An interview guideline was used for the collection of information from teachers. Observation-document analysis was also involved. Data collected was cleaned, coded and entered in SPSS package where it was analyzed. A descriptive approach was used in analysis to make inferences and conclusions to the study findings. It was found that students staying with drug users followed suit, as peer influence, advertisements and availability increased use while addiction was the only side effect. The study recommends that the government regulates alcohol use, drug advertisements and raise awareness on effects of drug use; students should be encouraged to avoid staying with drug users; conditions that create negative peer influence should be eradicated and that parents shouldn't use drugs in front of children. The findings of the study are useful to counsellors, community workers and other therapists who seek to promote emotional, mental and physical health of the society by eliminating the preconditioning factors of drug abuse and its related problems.

Keywords: addicts, drugs, illicit, trafficking, factors, secondary school students, Kisii, Kenya.

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