Rising Drug Use and Youths in Nigeria: A Need for an Urgent Legislative Action

Abstract

The objective of the brief is to identify the causes of rising drug intake among youths in Nigeria. Rising cases of drug intake in Nigeria is alarming which has caused huge and unquantified damage to the society There should be a total overhaul of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to reduce the rate of drug abuse in Nigeria. This can be done through the development of a central data capturing to identify the progress of such actions and the means to be adopted to curtail such intake by the youths.