Tenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

The study sought to find out whether the use of alcohol, marijuana, shisha, and steroids could be risk factors for cocaine use among senior high school students in Ghana. A cross-sectional survey was used. With quota sampling, three hundred and twenty nine students (male=217, female=112), with an average age of 17.23 (SD=1.33) were selected from four senior high schools in Accra, Ghana. It was found that sex, alcohol, and shisha use consistently failed to predict cocaine use. Though ever used marijuana within the past year failed to predict cocaine use within the past year, its use within the last thirty days predicted the use of cocaine within the last thirty days. However, steroid use consistently predicted cocaine use. These and other findings are discussed in light of related studies.