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Health & Living: Alcohol is More Dangerous than Cocaine: Research finding

  As per experts, alcohol scored so high because it is so widely used and has devastating consequences not only for drinkers but for those around them. Wim van den Brink, a professor of psychiatry and addiction at the University of Amsterdam, who was not linked to the study and co-authored a commentary in the Lancet, said, “Just think about ...

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VIDEO + News: How A Pastor Who Smokes Igbo Before Mounting Pulpit Was Caught By NDLEA In Lagos

  “When tested, the 54 sticks proved positive to cannabis. The clergyman confessed during a preliminary interview that he packed that quantity of illicit substance on his body to use during his three weeks crusade in Kenya” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MARCH 20, 2022 Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have arrested the pastor who many said ...

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ECHOES OF AWKUZU: The Menace Of Drugs In Awkuzu – By Ozor Odutche

  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. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 2, 2021 There’s a sweeping wave of narcotics and substance abuse across ...

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DRUG ABUSE: NDLEA Moot Compulsory Test For Job Seekers, Intending Couples

  “In the nearest future, anyone seeking employment into any government-industry or ministry, parastatal or agency; or seeking admission into a tertiary institution; or even getting married must first have to do drug test,” OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has devised other strategies to eradicate the use of illicit drugs as will now be required ...

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