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ON-GOING PROJECT OF THE NORTHERN YOUTH ASSEMBLY(MAJALISAR MATASAN AREWA)

THE FLAG OFF CAMPAIGN AGAINST DRUG ABUSE AMONG THE YOUTHS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

OUR CONCERN

Drug addiction of whatever type must not be allowed to fester in any society due to its destructive consequences on health and lifestyle. Adolescents and youth of both sexes and between the ages of 15 – 30 years constitute the high risk group. 

Many of the victims of the drug and substance abuse undergo through memory lapses, short attention span, difficulty in concentration and the rest. The three consecutive annual report of the NDLEA released from 2010 – 2012 has placed and rated Kano State, in the Northern Nigeria as the leading State in the Drug and substance Abuse in the Country, a situation not only embarrassing but unfortunate as well.     

WHY OUR INVOLVEMENT NOW

A recent report showed that the abuse of drugs has become rampant, particularly among the youths and women in Northern Nigeria. What this portends is that substance abuse is silently but steadily developing into a serious problem, especially among the Northern women and Youths.

Every sensitive community in the world, be it developed or developing economy, has a tendency of placing a great priority and emphasis on the future of its young ones, with the belief that, the same category of the people are expected to be the next future leaders of such nations, communities or countries.

Unfortunately, the story tends to portray a different perspectives in Nigeria, where the future and the psychological security of the youths is being threatened by the number of social problems especially those associated with the most growing habit of substance and drug abuse among a significant percentage of the teeming population of young men and women, or even among the married women. 

  

It is for this reason that, the NYA has resolved to embark on a massive campaign against the ugly practice, as part of the Assembly’s contributory efforts to restore sanity in the region, through the adoption of rehabilitative and preventive measures.