Drug, substance abuse: The future in limbo
or all of the nagging issues, individuals do not realise that they are suddenly enmeshed in the so-called solutions.
We live in a weird world where some individuals make their choices, while others are pushed or innocently dive into addiction.
Peer pressure cannot be spared; it actually has the hypnotising effect of all the drugs combined.
People are caught in the web because so and so does it. It is a sad reality that individuals rarely have time to think and decide on.
All they can do is just pick from the garbage cans provided by their peers. Individuals want to fit into a society at any cost, but when things turn sour, the same community ejects them.
Another bait that has left many in the madhouse is curiosity, which draws people into experimentation.
Unconventional preachers normally exaggerate the effects of high-level drugs, thereby swooping the gullible off their feet.
When abused, drugs have been known to cause misery at home, in schools, and at the workplace.
It goes without saying that drug abusers, more often than not, downplay the risk factors of their addictive game; the manifestation of its brutality being either short-term or long-term.
The damage is immeasurable. At times, suicidal thoughts flood the mind, depression fixates the lone soul, risky behaviour goes into overdrive, internal organs give in to the unrestrained consumption, and if rehabilitation does not come to the rescue, death becomes inevitable.
Unfortunately, youths seem to have been ambushed by this heinous addiction, which is sweeping across the world at a rate of knots.
Imagine bequeathing a legacy to an intoxicated generation. This could be a minute to midnight.
In the midst of this disturbance, there are kingpins cashing in on a putrefying society.
While somebody is making a prayer to push more and more volumes of intoxication, someone else is praying for the redemption of a dying child, a dying relative, or a dying friend in the neighbourhood due to substance abuse.
◆ Full story: www.herald.co.zw Simon Tayengwa is the Public Service Commission’s communication, advocacy and content development officer. He writes in his personal capacity.
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