Killer Drugs In The Hands Of Mpumalanga Youth (Vox Pop)

 

                       Killer Drugs In The Hands Of  Mpumalanga Youth

Drugs are substances that changes ones physical and emotion being, recently people of Mpumalanga have been in dire need of help as most people are involved in drugs mostly the youth.

The most common drugs that have been found being used include Nyaope, Marijuana & Alcohol.

According to Thabo Dhlamini he believes that the youth is involved in drugs due to peer pressure and unemployment. He states that “people take drugs due to their background at home whereby a person comes from an underprivileged background and can’t handle the pressure back home”.

Recently drugs have also made their ways into the school premises as Boitumelo Skosana a grade 11 pupil states that “I have some of my peers dropping out of school to just go focus on drugs and some were bright learners in class”.

Parents happened to be one of the key players in tackling the struggle against drugs, according to Given Mahlangu he believes some parents have tried necessary to help their children they even take steps of taking their children to rehab to help them stop taking this drug, but some end up going straight to drugs after going to rehab due to peer pressure.

He also believes that the government When it comes to it trying to assist, he says “yes, the government is doing more than enough due to that a lot of things are now free like your rehabs, therapy sessions, so the government also tries to fight the struggle”.

They all believe that in order to fight this struggle of drugs we must start by bringing down the drug dealers to law by showing the law enforcement the people who are behind the selling of drugs.

They also believe that the government must introduce a law which stop drug trade and find those responsible guilty and be given a sentence that will be set as an example for others who are thinking of selling drugs to the people on the streets.

Kgothatso Faith Chochi states “What we must do is to come together as the people and help the police by showing them these drug dealers who are selling drugs to the young ones so that they get arrested and then we can be able to the conversation of how to help the ones who are already in drugs get out of using drugs’’.