I could have been a drug addict – Obasanjo

I could have been a drug addict – Obasanjo

Previous President Olusegun Obasanjo has spoke to Nigerian adolescents and understudies to stay away from the utilization and maltreatment of psychoactive medications, stressing that such substances offer no worth to life except for rather cause colossal obliteration.

Obasanjo settled on this decision during the second version of the Fly Over The High enemy of medication crusade meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Featuring the developing issue of chronic drug use in Nigeria and West Africa, Obasanjo called for limitation among youngsters. Considering his residency as Director of the West African Medication Commission under the Kofi Annan Establishment, he communicated caution at the district’s change from a travel center for medications to a focal point of utilization.

“However, regrettably, dismay, and torment, toward the finish of the activity, we figured out that West Africa has similarly been a middle for drug utilization in an exceptionally terrible manner. That was over quite a while back, so the circumstance has since gone more terrible. Furthermore, anything applies to West Africa applies to any remaining pieces of Africa,” he said.

The previous president likewise shared an individual tale about an early endeavor to take up smoking, which prompted serious hacking and deflected him from proceeding.

“Assuming I had continued, I might have become dependent. When you reach out, it is challenging to get out,” he said, advance notice the social occasion of adolescents, understudies, emotional wellness subject matter experts, and policymakers.

“There’s nothing medication can accomplish for you with the exception of annihilation,” Obasanjo pronounced, encouraging those all around dependent on look for help while advised society against defaming them.