EFFECT OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN KADUNA STATE: IMPLICATION FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

EFFECT OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN KADUNA STATE: IMPLICATION FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This study was undertaken to find the effects of alcohol consumption in Kaduna State; Implication for socio-economic development with special reference to 'burukutu'. The respondents of the study consisted of brewers of alcoholic contents, consumers of alcohol both retired and active ones as well as their relatives and concerned individuals. The data for the study was collected using questionnaire, interview and observation respectively. The Chi-square and T-test statistical techniques were used to test the responses of the respondents as regards their views concerning alcohol consumption and its socio-economic effects on consumers. The above techniques were also used to test the hypotheses formulated for the study. All these were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study were as foliows: 1. There is no significant difference among respondents in terms of the view that alcohol consumption has a bearing on the sociology-economic status of consumers.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Animals, no less than man, inherit powerful instinctive drives to preserve their life and liberty, but the pursuit human characteristics. Therefore, man has been in search for drugs to facilitate this pursuit (Britainnical, Vol. 13 1998). People do not usually drink pure alcohol but a beverage containing alcohol, specifically ethyl alcohol. Alcohol beverages include wines, beers and spirits. Alcohol is a depressant, dulling the cortical functions of memory, learning, judgment, reasoning, comparison and classification (encyclopedia of Psychology, Vol. 1 pp 14). Alcohol has an anesthetic or depressant effect on the central nervous system. It is a class of drug that act upon the nervous system by depressing or dulling human functions of learning. Ordinarily, the respondents ascertain that