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BISHOP ILUKOR GIRLS’ SECONDARY SCHOOL-KUMI

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT ITEM (CAI).


BIOLOGY 553.
CENTRE NUMBER: 2447 YEAR: 2024 CLASS: senior 3 TERM: 2
Theme: Coordination in animals. Topic: Nervous coordination in humans.
Learning outcome(s): understand how to prevent, control and avoid involvement in substance and drug abuse.
Subject competency (SC): Appreciates substance and drug abuse.
Generic skill (GS): exhibit critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Learning domain: Affective.
Ability Receiving Responding Valuing Organization Characterization
level
Research from the Uganda’s Ministry of You have read the In Bishop Ilukor Girls’ The Ugandan Many Ugandans have again come out
Scenario Health shows that many young people are extract from the secondary school-kumi, it Ministry of strongly to express their worries over
involved in substance and drug abuse. report on drug abuse was reported that a group of Gender, Labor and the increasing number of talented
This is majorly evidenced with by the students were using drugs Social young people getting wasted by drug
adolescents, exposing them to mental ugandaradionet.com. and recruiting many more Development abuse. This followed the appearance
breakdown, death and other problems as learners into this bad group. launched a school of another Ugandan musician in a
in the extract below. When the head teacher sensitization video smoking and drinking alcohol,
Intervened, the students campaign focusing looking miserable, almost three years
made a strike on how drugs of avoiding the public.
affect the brains
Read the extract. Respond to the Demonstrate your need to Demonstrate your Consistently show your appreciation
Task information you prevent, control and avoid influence towards of the need to prevent, control and
have read. involvement in substance others in order for avoid involvement in substance and
and drug abuse. them to prevent, drug abuse.
control and avoid
involvement in
substance and drug
abuse.

EXTRACT.
Uganda records 85000 cases of drug abuse in four years.
Drugs that are commonly abused in Uganda include marijuana and khat [Mairungi]. While these are locally produced, according to the Director Health Services Dr. Anthony
Mbonye Health Information Surveillance report on alcohol (2015), indicated that there is an increase in the use of hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines.
57000 were alcohol cases while 27,000 were drug abuse cases. The report came at a time when Uganda was joining the rest of the world to commemorate the international
Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit trafficking (26th June).
Other drugs commonly abused are prescription medicines including Pethidine (pain killer) and Ephedrine.
Dr. David Basangwa the Executive Director Butabika hospital, said that between February 2014 and March 2015, the hospital’s alcohol and drug unit recorded 778 and 829
alcohol disorders and drug abuse respectively. He said that it was so worrying as it affects the country’s social and economic state.
Dr. Basangwa added that most drug abusers begin while at school or university where they get messed up, drop out of school and usually form the highest percentage of
gangsters. He added that more than half of people who have drug problems also have a mental health problem such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and attention
deficit.
According to the Uganda Police Anti- Narcotics department acting commissioner Kyomukama James, many drug traffickers prefer passing through Entebbe airport because
Uganda has weak laws against the crime.
However, with the passing of the Narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances (control) Act, 2015 brings with its tougher punishments with three years minimum sentence
for the users and life imprisonment for the traffickers. According to Kyomukama, this law will reduce the consumption and trafficking of these drugs.
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