The Deputy Accra Regional Commander of the Narcotics Control Commission, Reas Hakim Oduro has made shocking revelations about how some youth in Ghana are getting addicted to hard drugs.
He found it worrying that some youth have become dependent on hard drugs which, to them, give them an inexplicable euphoric feeling.
Speaking to host Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' programme, Mr. Hakim Oduro disclosed that the drug addicts are not just using marijuana and herion but have advanced to using other products that contain psychoactive elements.
He shocked the panel on 'Kokrokoo' Monday morning revealing that the addicts are now sniffing sanitary pads and petrol to "get high".
He stated they use sanitary pads "because of the chemical they use to produce it. It has some elements of psychoactive that people are now shifting to that one too. New substances keep coming up...even with female nail polish, people are using it. Petrol, people are using it; anything that can penetrate your brain to make you high or give you a euphoric feeling but the effects are also there".
He also revealed that some of them are now blowing "laughing gas" from balloons.
"They use nitrous oxide which is contained in small canisters like fire extinguisher . . . So, they will pour the laughing gas into a balloon and blow it into their mouths," he said.
Mr. Reas Hakim Oduro however noted that the drug addicts can be rehabilitated through awareness and patiently advising them to stop their addiction.
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Too bad, where then lies the future of this country with it's youth behaving this way. How did it all start? In the 80's and early 90's these sorts of things were unheard of. Today Marijuana is been sold in some senior high schools by students. Some years back masters in the then secondary schools now senior high schools could conduct unannounced search in dormitories by looking into trunks and chop boxes after ordering all students to vacate the dormitories. Today teachers/ masters can no longer discipline students. What has happened to the old adage saying ' spare the rod and spoil the child '? Can you imagine what Ghana will be like when we have a sizable population of it's citizens being drug addicts? The police will have to step up their game by picking intelligence of people who are into large scale cultivation of marijuana in addition to chemical sellers popularly called drug store who are into the sale of tramadol. The courts should also give heavy sentences to those caught. The future of Ghana looks bleak considering what is currently happening. Drug abuse among the youth is now nationwide. In some regional and district capitals we now have various youth camps where young boys and girls converge to abuse drugs and parents look on helplessly. Those making money from the sale of these substances, how do you feel? Do they have children, cousins, nephews, relatives?