{"id":152652,"date":"2025-02-25T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes"},"modified":"2025-02-27T00:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:19:40","slug":"ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA raises alarm as three million people battle drug addiction in North Wes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed that approximately three million people in the Northwest geopolitical zone are struggling with drug addiction, highlighting the severity of substance abuse in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, made this disclosure on Monday during the flag-off ceremony of the Northwest geopolitical zone campaign against illicit drug use in Kaduna. The sensitization campaign, themed \u2018Stop Drug Abuse and Domestic Violence in Our Communities\u2019, aims to curb the rising tide of drug abuse and its associated social consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The programme was initiated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and organized by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in collaboration with the NDLEA. Addressing stakeholders at the event, Marwa described drug abuse as a major public health crisis that requires urgent collective action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2018 National Drug Use Survey conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed an alarming reality: 14.3 million Nigerians aged 15\u201364 use psychoactive substances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He called on state governments, lawmakers, local authorities, and private stakeholders to collaborate with the NDLEA in finding lasting solutions to the drug crisis. Marwa also urged parents, traditional rulers, religious leaders, and community members to play active roles in drug prevention, rehabilitation, and ensuring that traffickers face justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe success of this campaign requires the support of everyone. Parents, community leaders, traditional rulers, pastors, and imams must strengthen their resolve to prevent drug abuse, support those affected by it, and ensure that drug traffickers face the full force of the law,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>In its efforts to combat drug addiction, the NDLEA has established 30 counselling and rehabilitation centres across the country, providing psychosocial interventions, medical care, referrals, and social reintegration for recovering drug users.<\/p>\n<p>Marwa disclosed that a total of 22,047 individuals have been counselled, treated, and rehabilitated through these facilities over the past four years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed that approximately three million people in the Northwest geopolitical zone are struggling with drug addiction, highlighting the severity of substance abuse in the region. Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, made this disclosure on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":152651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[129,748,254],"class_list":["post-152652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-drug-abuse","tag-ndlea","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NDLEA raises alarm as three million people battle drug addiction in North Wes - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed that approximately three million people in the Northwest g ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NDLEA raises alarm as three million people battle drug addiction in North Wes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed that approximately three million people in the Northwest g ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-25T07:55:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-26T23:19:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740461435.71859.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NDLEA raises alarm as three million people battle drug addiction in North Wes\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-25T07:55:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-26T23:19:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes\"},\"wordCount\":339,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740461435.71859.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"drug abuse\",\"NDLEA\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ndlea-raises-alarm-as-three-million-people-battle-drug-addiction-in-north-wes\",\"name\":\"NDLEA raises alarm as three million people battle drug addiction in North Wes - 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