{"id":25778,"date":"2022-07-03T21:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec"},"modified":"2022-07-03T22:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:04:37","slug":"youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec","title":{"rendered":"Youths, major victims of drug, illicit trafficking in Zambia \u2013 DEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Drug Enforcement Commission of Zambia (DEC) says youths have become major victims of drug abuse and illicit trafficking in Zambia. DEC Public Relations Officer Mathias Kamanga said that after the Covid -19 outbreak there has been an increased number of youths who have engaged themselves into drug abuse and illicit trafficking<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kamanga said this during a Zambian National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) Update program in Lusaka yesterday. He urged parents to be aware of their children\u2019s behavior and to be quick in noticing changes of behavior in their children.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kamanga was speaking ahead of the commemoration of the international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking, dubbed \u201cfighting drugs and substance abuse through strong families and health lifestyle\u201d which falls every year on June 28.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kamanga urged parents to engage with their children and sensitize on the effects of drug abuse and illicit trafficking to create awareness amongst their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAwareness activities, such as roadshows, street talks, visiting school, churches and market places to sensitize the dangers of drug abuse are some of the activities the DEC is doing,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kamanga appealed to the government to build a national rehabilitation centre that will ensure that people are reformed and rehabilitated to become better citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. The Drug Enforcement Commission of Zambia (DEC) says youths have become major victims of drug abuse and illicit trafficking in Zambia. DEC Public Relations Officer Mathias Kamanga said that after the Covid -19 outbreak there has been an increased number of youths who have engaged themselves into drug abuse and illicit trafficking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-25778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"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>Youths, major victims of drug, illicit trafficking in Zambia \u2013 DEC - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Drug Enforcement Commission of Zambia (DEC) says youths have become major victims of drug abuse and illicit traffick ...\" \/>\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\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Youths, major victims of drug, illicit trafficking in Zambia \u2013 DEC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Drug Enforcement Commission of Zambia (DEC) says youths have become major victims of drug abuse and illicit traffick ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-03T21:45:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-03T22:04:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c21262c1ec0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Youths, major victims of drug, illicit trafficking in Zambia \u2013 DEC\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-03T21:45:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-03T22:04:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec\"},\"wordCount\":231,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c21262c1ec0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/youths-major-victims-of-drug-illicit-trafficking-in-zambia-dec\",\"name\":\"Youths, major victims of drug, illicit trafficking in Zambia \u2013 DEC - 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