Jigawa NDLEA rehabilitates 21 drug addicts

The Jigawa Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it had rehabilitated 21 drug addicts in the state in the last two months.

The NDLEA Commandant in the state, Alhaji Abdu Abdul, disclosed this in Dutse.

Abdul said that the 21 addicts, including a female, were rehabilitated between June and July.

“The victims have since been reintegrated into their respective families across the state,” he said.

He said that the agency had counseled parents of the rehabilitated victims not to stigmatise them so as not to push them back to drug abuse.

The commandant stressed that it was important for families, friends and communities to show love and care, as well as offer encouragement to the rehabilitated victims, for them to feel secure and quickly reintegrate into the society.

“For such victims to fully recover, they need adequate and proper family care,” the NDLEA boss said.

He blamed the lack of family care, influence of peer groups and unemployment as some of the factors responsible for drug abuse among youth.

According to him, the agency had been conducting community-based counseling and sensitisation on the dangers associated with drug abuse, adding that the sensitisation programme had been extended to schools, as most victims of drug abuse were of school age.

Abdul, therefore, urged all Nigerians to support the agency in the fight against drug abuse.