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For better analysis, heroine, opium, cocaine have traditionally been the main headline grabbing flagships and headmasters of narcotics especially during the time of Pablo Escobar and Medellin Cartels of Colombia and their rings across the wide world in the 1980s and 1990s.
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There’s a sweeping wave of narcotics and substance abuse across Awkuzu at the moment just as it does happen everywhere else in Nigeria. The case with Igbo land, however, may have much to do with the prominent vernacular label ‘mkpulu mmiri’ already defining methamphetamine and its indulgence by the mostly young population.
Drugs, like their softer relatives, generally offer their consumers some ephemeral euphoria which basically drives the ultimate craving for them.
But is euphoria or feeling ‘high’ the ultimate end and results for patronizing substances?
The answer is No!
The side effects spiral from damage to the consumers’ physiological systems to crimes against one’s society and to one’s family.
Talking about one’s family is a lot deeper and far reaching.
Let me broach just the surface;
The Catholic Church as an efficient institution, for instance, would only ordain a priest after painstakingly profiling the candidate down his genealogical roots_both paternal and maternal_ as far as it could see and feels satisfied that the candidate does not originate from a family tree that has had a tinge of history of drugs dealing or indulgence in addition to numerous other unwholesome human traits.
So the young or old people engaging in substances now whether dealing or consuming is potentially foreclosing the possibility of a future Catholic priesthood in your genealogy.
It’s perhaps appropriate to add the issue of Veblen Effect as a phenomenon in drugs and substances consumption.
Thorstein Veblen, the popular American economist, had given the world an analysis that many items of merchandise may be of same quality but once a more costly label is successfully pasted on some to distinguish taste or value, those ones so distinguished could attract higher and more elegant patronage especially by the upper class of customers but the quality is still the same. This has come to be generally known as Veblen Effect or Veblen Syndrome
For better analysis, heroine, opium, cocaine have traditionally been the main headline grabbing flagships and headmasters of narcotics especially during the time of Pablo Escobar and Medellin Cartels of Colombia and their rings across the wide world in the 1980s and 1990s. These ones are only high octane, high sounding in name. They have efficacious equivalents in dry paw paw leaves in lacasera, codeine with ammoxyl capsules, melted tyre in any carbonated drinks, etc.
There’s, therefore, a great need to talk about this ravaging incidence openly and frankly in our immediate community environment because there is neither logic nor playing the ostrich in denying the reality of its existence and consequent adverse effects on our wider community.
This is the basic handle we can put on it and any other further inputs could follow.
It’s actually not enough to wield long and heavy cane sticks on the users of mkpulu mmiri as we have seen lately in many communities.
Many of such addicts may not withstand the punishment because they are hardly well fed and so they’re malnourished.
Even if the sticks would be part of the treatment package at its level the idea of drafting in experts to speak on the topic says one or two things of beauty about Awkuzu as a community under good handles.
My personal gratitude goes to Igwe Professor Charles Anikweze and his Cabinet, Mrs Ekwi Ajide of the Anambra Broadcasting Service, Abuja Office and her NGO, Balm for the Bruised Foundation, which has actually been doing a sustainable campaign to cater to the needs of victims of drugs and substance abuse for years by way of counseling and rehabilitation, and to Professor Augustine Nonso Odili of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital and a member of Awkuzu Igwe’s Cabinet, and, in fact, to any other individual, group or institution who could have spared their resources to add to the platforms for this program to make our community a healthier, saner and safer environment.
Daalu nu.
@Ozor Odutche.
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