How can the rising incidence of meth be cut down??

 Methamphetamine (mkpuru mmiri) as it is called on the street is  the trending hard drug especially among the youths in some parts of Nigeria that is causing havoc, rendering the users useless and causing premature death.

Methamphetamine is a powerful addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system.It is beleved  that the ability of this hard drug to release dopamine (pleasure) hormone is the reason  it’s high intake among the youth.

 A department of NDLEA once causioned about the devastating effect of the hard called mkpuru mmiri or crytal chunk as the street name. An article in dailyPost dated November 18, 2021, stated that according to the River state command of the  National  Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), methamphetamine known as “ice” or “mkpuru mmiri” in the local parlance is spreading fast in the state.  The NDLEA spokesman , Emmanuel  Ogbu Mgbade,  stressed  that the hard drug was being imported from the neighboring states such as Abia and Imo where the clandestine laboratories for the production of  methamphetamine have being discovered.

 In another news, dated 18th, Oct, 2019, DailyTrust recorded that the Anambra state command of NDLEA busted a methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory where methamphetamine was being produced. According to the state’s spokesman, the drug is capable of rendering people around the environment useless with serious health issues. Despite the effort to curb the raising use of this hard among the youths, the intake of these hard drug is still on the increase. 

Many workshops and seminars have been organized to sensitize the youth on the dangers of this trending hard drug.

Prof. Theresa Obiekezie, Anambra state commissioner  for youth Empowerment and Creative Economy in a workshop organized for the youths, pointed out that the rise in the abuse of the methamphetamine (mkpuru mmiri) has led  to death among the youths, resulted in the vandalism of public properties and has sparked various degrees  of violence among the youth. . Some punishments have being giving to the handiers as we have seen but still was not able to stop the growing incidence of this drug.

 The question is why is the use of methamphetamine  among the youths on the increase despite the dangerous effect of this hard drug? The Chief executive of a Lagos pharmaceutical company has the answer when responded to enactafrica according to him, the growing incidence of methamphetamine is mainly due to the depressed economic reality faced by the youths in Nigeria.

What shall be done to cut down the rising incidence of this hard drug because it has done more harm to the youths with nothing good to show.

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Sources: operanews/avoid mkpuru mmiri-Anambra commissioner issues a warning to the youth.

Http://dailypost.ng/use of methamphetamine spreading fast in River State.