Drug Abuse: An Epidemic Going Untamed | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

Every year on June 26, the United Nations observes International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking with the aim of attracting global attention to the dangers that illegal and misuse of substances pose to society. Globally, about 200 million individuals use illegal substances like cocaine, cannabis, hallucinogens, opiates, and sedative-hypnotics, according to the…

A UNODC 2018 report said that drug use was most prevalent among people between the ages of 25 and 39, while rates of use in the previous year were lowest among people under the age of 24. In another 2018 report by the National Drug Use Survey, there were approximately 14.3 million drug users in Nigeria when it was executed, of whom about three million had a drug use condition.

The World Drug Report also revealed that in Nigeria, the prevalence of drug usage during the past year is estimated to be 14.4%, or 14.3 million people between the ages of 15 and 64. When compared to the global yearly prevalence of any drug use among adults of 5.6% in 2016, Nigeria’s level of drug usage is considerably high.

Like Grace, there are millions of Nigerian students who have been out of school for more than five months and the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities strike is serving as an enabler to abuse drugs, a parent told Guardian Life. He argued that many parents are “not observant enough to pick up some of the signs” to detect that their child is exposed to drugs.

“You see music, videos, movie skits glorifying the abuse of drugs, and so some of the innocent minds watching these things on social media think those are the futures of the generation, as things they need to do to make up. At the end of the day, they end up getting ruined.” Clerics from the Christian and Islamic faith said they were in support of the idea they thought could make Nigeria have a drug-free generation in the coming years.

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