Don’t Experiment With Alcohol, Drugs NAFDAC Warns Students
Prof. Christiana Adeyeye, Director General of the National Agency for Food, l Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised youths and students to stay away from drug and alcohol.
Adeyeye said this during the inauguration of NAFDAC Consumer Safety Club (NCSC) at Union Secondary School, Ichi, Ekwusigo Local Government Area, Anambra on Wednesday.
The Director General who was represented by Mr Louis Madubuatta, a Deputy Director and Coordinator of NAFDAC in Anambra said resistance to experiment with the items was the best way to escape abuse and its negative consequences.
He said drug abuse exposed the individual to drug addiction, serious impairment, illness, death, heart damage, loss of memory, concentration, psychosis, schizophrenia, hallucination and paranoia.
He said to stay free of drug abuse, students should resist peer pressure, develop hobby, take only prescribed medication, concentrate on their study and do not experiment with hard drugs.
“You must develop alcohol drinking refusal skills because of the consequences of alcoholism, you must learn to resist the urge to engage in alcohol drinking.
“Once you start, you may not be able to stop.
“We do not get to choose who our parents are or the circumstances of our birth, but you can choose to be the best version of yourself by the choices you make.
“It is high time you as young Nigerians realise that this epidemic of drug and alcohol abuse is destroying family, workforce and distabilising our economy,” he said.
Madubuatta said NAFDAC was taking the campaign against drug abuse to the grass roots by re-establishing NCSC in secondary schools.
He said the agency would collaborate with the school teachers to work with students to catch-them-young and prevent life of addiction and destruction.
Also speaking, Mrs Uche Ewulu, Principal of Union Secondary School, Ichi said the initiative would go a long way to addressing drug and alcohol abuse among youths.
Ewulu thanked management of the government of Anambra and NAFDAC for approving the school and giving the students life saving skills.
“We are overwhelmed with joy that you chose to initiate a programme with our school to impact positively on our students by sensitising them in drug abuse,” she said.
