How Citizens Resort To Localized Drug Abuse during recession. There are every indication that the present economic situations in Nigeria has affected the way youths live their lives especially the deviants who are now hard pressed from having legal means of evading the negatives influences of frustrations occasioned with high cost of living in the country. Towncrier.ng findings revealed that nowadays it is common to see most social deviants using Top bond brand of chemical substances applied by cobblers in Shoe-making and mending which when inhaled in great quantity intoxicate them making them to feel high like someone who ingested cannabis, Heroin or Cocaine.
The reason most parents do not know how often their children or wards get into drug abused is not only when they take prescription drugs without the consent of a qualified medical personnel but that they engage into localized consumption of substances or gaseous inhalation of say offensive gas from septic disposable tanks is an aberration. What they do here is open a little hole in Septic tanks and connect a little pipe direct to faeces which oozes out bad smelling gas which when inhaled intoxicates like cocaine or heroin. Among scavengers who rummage and ruminate the waste disposal locations are commonly fond of this habit of getting high while they ply their trade.
Others who are exposed to Tramadol usually used in pain killing and as aphrodisiac but nowadays used by social deviants in getting intoxicated and for prolonging hours of sexual intercourse this on its own has side effects which most often instantly increases the blood pressure of consumers resulting to cardiac arrest popularly called heart attack. However most youths indulge in using Tramadol in preventing premature ejaculation while having sex but all the same endanger their health severally due to drug abuse proper.
Again pentazocine a popular before surgery pain killer is injected through an I.V but is a narcotic pain relief drugs used for Anastasia putting patients to sleep while surgery is performed by trained medical personnel. What you observe nowadays is that some social deviants use pentazocine outside doctor’s prescription which leads to indulgence of overdose with severe after effects some resulting to untimely death. In most cases citizens who unknowingly consume contaminated water especially in areas where mining of extractive minerals such as gold leads to consumption of lead poisoned water which affect adversely the health of such locals. Even those who reside in areas where hydrocarbon extractive industries engage into mining and who do not have sources of potable water do consume benzene contaminated water which also lead to damages to their major body organs but first make them to always feel drowsy.