Rivers
Group Decries High Rate Of Drug Abuse
A Port Harcourt-based
non-governmental Organisation, His Devine Touch Family Initiative (HDTFI) has blamed high relapse rate of drug addicts and depressed persons in the society on a wide gap which exists between the hospitals and the rehabilitation centres.
HDTFI Managing Director, Deaconess Anyanaba Idoniboyeobu stated at a media organised by the body in Port Harcourt recently.
Idoniboyeobu, a retired director with the Rivers State Ministry of Health explained that “as depressed youths leave care centres or hospitals they get home to meet different environment that often lure them back to drugs through peer group influence”.
Noting that DTFI was established to cater for adolescents who were mainly in Senior Secondary Schools she expressed the need for Churches and the privileged in the society to support the depressed so as to restore their health.
“The need for the NGO was born from the fact that violence seems to cloud every society, thus evidenced in the loss of lives and property through violent actions of adolescents and youths, who constitute our future generation.
Idoniboyeobu who expressed concern that such actions had become our daily occurrence and a trend that threatened posterity disclosed that his NGO since its inception in 2009 had been involved in sensitising youths on the negative effect of hard drugs and encouraging that drug addicts were rehabilitated.
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