drug abuse in nigeria

The World Drug Report of 2019 has put drug use prevalence in Nigeria at 14.4 percent of the population, representing 14.4 million Nigerians aged 15 to 64 years. This was revealed on Thursday, October 31st in Kaduna by registrar of the Pharmarcists Council of Nigeria (PCN), Elisha … Read...

Reports from the National Bureau of Statistics have indicated that despite the policy against the misuse and administration of drugs, Nigeria has recorded over nine per cent increase in the abuse of drugs from 5.6 per cent in 2006 to 15 per cent, which reveals … Read more via Thisdaylive –...

A student of the Federal University, Lokoja, Saddam Saidu, has narrated how drug addiction almost ruined his life, but for the intervention of his father, Mohammed, who refused to give up on him. The Political Science student explained that... Read more via Tori News –...

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Moji Adeyeye, has said the fines of N300,000 for.... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2tLsrGM Get More Nigeria Metro News

Following a recent documentary on prevalent Codeine abuse by young Nigerians the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Federal Government put a ban on cough syrups... Read more via Information Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/2ruKSz5 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Dr. Bala Muhammad of the Faculty of Communication, Bayero University Kano, has accused Igbo drug merchants of supplying codeine syrups to the north. The lecturer made the allegation while presenting a paper at the Kano Youth Summit on Peace Advocacy and Development organised by Hamisu Magaji...

A video making the rounds on social media has revealed the demise of a young man after he used a new illicit drug known on the streets as “Colorado”. Read more via pulse.ng – https://ift.tt/2GwAiR8 Get More Nigeria Metro News

An unidentified male of Abraka community, Ethiope East local government area of Delta State, was weekend confirmed dead after ingesting a drug substance suspected to Tramadol. Sources claim the deceased who is in his mid 20s, has been a regular user of the drug. He was said to have slumped in...

A young man who went “loco” after he took an excess of the opiod pain medication, in an apparently attempt to get high, or probably impress on of his girls, has been talking to a hospital after overdosing on Tramadol on Sunday in Lagos. Read more via INFORMATION NIGERIA –...

via Punch Newspapers – http://ift.tt/2DthuAz Police in Portugal and Spain say they seized nearly a ton of cocaine hidden inside pineapples. The Police said they arrested nine members of a gang that shipped the drugs from South America. The cocaine was wrapped in yellow wax and packed inside...

By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA—Following the alarming rates of drug abuse in some parts of the country, the House of Representatives at plenary yesterday, asked the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to immediately place a ban on the dispensing and sales of codeine...

The Kano State Government said on Monday that it had destroyed illicit drugs worth N4.1 billion confiscated in the state in 2017 alone. Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje who revealed this at the Senate Roundtable on Drug Abuse Epidemic held in Kano, said this was part of the renewed fight against drug …...