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- Title
Vulnerability of the Female Youth to Drugs and Substance Abuse in Makindu Town, Kenya.
- Authors
Jagero, Nelson; Mbulwa, Faith
- Abstract
The concept of vulnerability helps to identify those members of a population who are likely to suffer long term disruptions of livelihood and lifelines as well as those who will find it more difficult to re-establish their accustomed patterns of living. Many people in Kenya when asked about consumption of drugs and substance will express a sense that there is a crisis. Today women and children abuse drugs and substance which was unheard of in the past. In the past women were safe, they would hardly abuse drugs and substance. Currently female youth are abusing drugs and they are catching up with the men. The objective of the study was to investigate the extent to which female youth in Makindu town are vulnerable to drug and substance abuse. The research design used in the study was case study design using snow ball sampling technique. Twenty-nine respondents were sampled for the study. The data was collected by the use of unstructured interviews, participant observation for female youth who abused drugs and substance and focus group discussion guides for female youth whose partners abused drugs. Data was analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The major finding of the study was that the extent to which female youth were vulnerable was high due to; peer pressure, unemployment, availability of drugs and substance and availability of money to purchase the drugs and substance.
- Subjects
KENYA; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; DRUG abuse; SUBSTANCE abuse; TEENAGERS; WOMEN
- Publication
Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
1819-8465
- Publication type
Article