Nigeria: Substance Abuse in the North

10 April 2013
editorial

A recent report says that the abuse of codeine-containing cough syrup has become rampant, particularly among women in northern Nigeria. What this portends is that substance abuse is silently but steadily developing into a serious problem, especially among northern women. Some have attributed the rampant use of the substance to its availability over the counter.

But it is also likely that what makes it more attractive and deceptively convincing users that they are not drug addicts is that it has not been labelled as a narcotic.

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