As the Federal Government continues to clamp down on hard drugs, many youths have continued to exploit other strange ways of getting high.
Among other ways, they now use urine, sweet and spice in uncommon ways.
The revelation was made by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency , through Shehu Dankolo, Head of Drug Reduction of the NDLEA in Adamawa State .
In an interview with Daily Light, he said, “There are certain controlled drugs, particularly codeine cough syrup. You know, the Federal Government clamped down on them. Some of the companies closed down. So, the cough syrup that was initially N250 per bottle, is now sold for about N4,000. The same thing with tramadol which was N50 but is now about N500.
“Because these abused but banned drugs are so scarce and costly or entirely out of reach, people improvise other things. I won’t include so much detail so that people don’t read this and begin to experiment.
“There is a way they process urine. They take it and become intoxicated. There is a way they put maggi in some energy drinks and it gives them intoxication. There is a certain sweet they put in half bottle of water which they cover up and leave for some days. They form such other things. There are what we call new psychoactive substances. That is why drug abuse is difficult to tackle.”
Nigerian youths now take urine, mixed sweet to get high – NDLEA
