The abuse of prescription drugs is so rampant in Nigeria and has gone beyond codeine. The abuse of drugs among youth has gone beyond codeine. The abuse of drugs among youth has become a disturbing hard in Nigeria which has recently led the Federal Government meeting through the mushy of health to ban codeine which us an active pharmaceutical ingredient for making laugh syrup. This ban liver the production and import of the laugh syrup containing codeine after a BBC investigation into its role in an addiction epidemic the remaining stocks however could be sold with a perception. The BBC investigation reveled that the syrup being sold in black on the black market are used by young myenous to get high. The joint probe by the BBC’s news investigation unit, Africa eye and BBC pidgin prumpled a very snufa response from people across the cemetery that included Nigeria’s first lady, Aisha Buhari, who said in an Instagram post that she was deeply saddened by the rise of the problem especially in the northern part of Nigeria. she called an security agencies, law maker, judiciary, using manufacturers, civil society, regulation, teacher, parents, neighbor to take this as a perusal was and lack the menule. The Nigerian Senate estimates that as many as three millin battles of codeine syrup are drink every single day in just two states Kano and Jigawa. Codeine syrup in commonly mixed with soft drinks and often combined by students. Nigeria’s Drug Enforcement Agency is fighting this epidemic as a recent nud seized 24,000 bottles of codeine syrup from a single lorry in Katstina. The codeine is imported, but the syrup is made in Nigeria by more than 20 pharmaceutical lupines just as codeine syrup addiction has been a problem across Africa with reports of addiction in Kenya, Ghana, Niger and Chad. While this luniugeus steps by the Federal Government to has codeine has been lumended by various stakeholders including arrociate of pharmacist in Nigeria, Local advocacy groups, civil rights groups and mental health advocate. There are definitely many pertment matters arising as a result. There is little information an has many drug user there are in Nigeria and the abuse of perception drug has gone beyond codeine the ban in codeine-related drugs might only spur many youths to seek ultemative drugs to satisfy the vige. Some other ones the couter drugs which have been abused include antibiotic, antidiarrhoeals, laxatives, pain-relieving drugs, sedatives, auphetiumes and cannabis. The availability and possible medical needs of these drugs indicate that government must comprehence usually review just ban one item tramadol in a pain killer but new being used as an ectstay drug. The pell limes in deferent milligrams from 50 to 500 and maximum of 200mg insevere treatment cases. Alive 200mg, it will cause a mussive eceptene effect similar to what is gotten from manufacture and other drugs. It is also used to enhance libido and sexual performance. When used for a lugs term can cause semin health damage especially suzeme and both defects. Rohypmol also lum as poko, rofies, nonce is a tranquilizer about 10x more product that valum taken with alcohol or assorted drinks or taken with marijuana or even injected. Usually employed for date rupe for its paralyzing effect. Alabakin is a cheup pain killer usually obtained from hawkers and usually taken with alcohol to neutralize hungivers and ofter mixed with cocane and other substance to be sulthed othet drugs like aspirin used to recent muscus, emotional Pains and sometimes water an exatry effect to the user. Kill despondent emotional trauma, and depression among men. When abused it can become harmful to the body him physically and mentally. Beyond the user the centre drugs abuse and ban of such drugs and seizing marijuana and layer cutting jurmlanwedi to used in cultivating marijuana. Most coments made in the make of the codeine noise has not interrogated the mandate of the NDLEA which is the main government agency, saddled with the responsibility of checking drug abuse mence in this country. NDLEA needs to be overhandled and reinvented because it has suffered from years of military culture. The emphasis has always been on the supply reduction which involves seizing of drugs, being of drugs while we have whindned the huge task of demand reduction. The demand reduction mandate of the NDLEA has been rather dormant or indulged into mere counseling session or locking of offedance. Beyond managing the culprit, the socio economic and socio cultural organs that field the demand of the drug among the youth should be interrogated. This cannot be done when the NDLEA function alone without returning with other agencies and panstituls. The psychodynus of drug abuse has shown that socio economic issues in the family, megular sulaun, inability to pay school fees, pension payment default, insecurity, and over crowding or outright himelemen. These junction calculate as assault in the growing psyche o our young persons who have not developed mature among melhuman as they will naturally prefer the inactive activities of employing chemical to scipe. The family on the basic unit of the society must be strengthened through spuchul, sollul and policy degency fruit will guarantee that the junction that melde abuse of dig poschle are reduced.
Dr Adeoye Oyewole
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