Greedy Businesses Are Pushing the Youth Toward Drug Addiction

[Li Yuan Fangs]

Drug Addiction: A Dire Threat to the Youth

Staff Reporter, Daily Jugantor: Drug addiction is rising alarmingly across the country, gripping the youth.

Many young men and women—including students from schools, colleges, and universities—are increasingly becoming addicted to substances like Phensedyl and Yaba. A widespread trend of Yaba consumption is currently observed among students of private universities and colleges.

Drug addiction is a primary cause of moral degradation among the youth. Many young people fall prey to addiction; a significant factor behind this moral decline is bad company. Many youths and adolescents lose their moral compass after associating with wayward friends. Our promising youth are abandoning their studies to succumb to addiction. They often pressure their parents in various ways to secure money for drugs. There have even been tragic incidents in the country where parents were killed by their addicted sons for refusing to provide money for drugs.

Drug addiction is corrupting the social lives of the youth and destroying family peace. The easy availability of narcotics is a major reason for this addiction. Nowadays, these drugs are sold openly in various bars and slum areas. Along with urban slums, city bus terminals have also turned into hotspots for drug consumption.

Speaking with our correspondent, several guardians alleged that a section of unscrupulous, influential individuals—and even some members of law enforcement agencies—are facilitating these activities.

Certain traders are cunningly luring the youth toward drugs, often involving them in the drug trade itself. Young people experience a temporary rush from consuming these substances; however, by becoming habituated to drug use, they are hurtling toward self-destruction.

The youth must be protected from the poisonous grip of drug addiction; otherwise, the nation will be plunged into darkness. Social awareness regarding the dangers of drug addiction must be raised.

[Opiate32]

Businesses don’t create addiction by themselves. There has to be demand, easy access, vulnerable young people and the environment where selling this substances is profitable enough to continue. If you remove one dealer but leaves this conditions untouched , someone else will easily take their place.

What worries me more is that we of the focus on the people selling drugs why paying less attention to why so many young people are willing to take them in the first place. If we don’t deal with the both sides of the problem, we are only treating the symptom.

[Dave1]

It's going to be a battle between the government and those peddlers of drugs. And with that, gonna take a lot of effort because we all know that there is a drug mafia and this has been a plague since the 70's where everything started.

So by now it got worst and it's very hard to stop. So every society has it's own duty to protect it's youth specially us parents. And it started with poverty though as this is where this drug addicts usually grow because those sellers can easily penetrate it and offer drugs for money or for them to get out of their problems. So poverty should be the first one to be addressed by the government before they can curb out drug addiction.

[Sim_card]

The drug cartel in the country wouldn't allow the insufficient supply of drugs on the streets because they are in business with the government. Top military officials are the ones backing up these drug cartels and they don't care about the harm it causes in the society. As long as they are making money, everyone is fine. Youths nowadays, are seeing drugs as a norm in the society and most of them are into it. Parents should sensitize their children on drug abuse and watch them closely.

[Agbe]

One silent thing, which I will discribed as a disease which has been destroying our society is drugs. Government at all levels should do their best in making sure that the problem of drug addition is arrest as society can't grow in peace and harmony when people are not in the best of sound mind. Which is the result you get when drug addiction sets into a society, law enforcement is key in this fight because part of the problem that we are seeing playing out is that, the law enforcement agencies too are found guilty and culpable at the end of the day.

But the heavier burden lies with the parents of such people because, today  the moral standards of our society has degenerated to a point that parents no longer Care and try to look out for what is happening with their children especially teenager's and the youths.