Drug Abuse: A Licking Plogue Devastating Ghana’s Youth and Nation.

Rev. Fr. Anthony Amponsah Afriyie, a clinical psychologist, has sounded the alarm on the dangers of drug abuse among Ghana’s youth.

In an interview with Dominic Duut on CAK TV, he described drug abuse as a “human self-destruction tool” with far-reaching consequences for individuals and the nation.

According to Rev. Fr. Afriyie, drug abuse impairs cognitive skills, damages physical health, and increases the risk of mental health disorders, academic decline, and risky behaviors among young people.

The effects on the nation are equally alarming, with significant economic productivity losses, strained healthcare systems, and increased crime rates.

Rev. Fr. Afriyie emphasized that drug abuse creates a vicious cycle that ruins individual potential and hampers national development.

The specific effects include brain and physical health damage, mental health disorders, academic and career decline, risky behaviors and criminality, social isolation, economic productivity loss, strained healthcare systems, increased criminal justice costs, family dysfunction and social decay, and a threat to security.

The message is clear: drug abuse has devastating impacts on Ghana’s youth and the nation as a whole.

It’s time for Ghanaians to take action and address this pressing issue.

Written by Dominic Duut