Nigeria: Drug Abuse Menace in Nigeria - a Time to Act

19 September 2019

In a recent report on drugs by the European Union (EU), the number of drug users in Nigeria is estimated to 24.4 percent or 14.3 million people aged between 15 and 64 years. This is according to the results of the National Drugs use Survey for 2018 released in Abuja by the European Union.

The data suggest that the prevalence of past-year drug use in Nigeria is more than twice the global average of 5.6 percent.

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