Drug Abuse
Uploaded by jaysonshigali on Jul 02, 2013
DRUG ABUSE
Drug use is an increasing problem in Kenya today and comes about during the early stages of the human life. Many people tend to use drugs excessively not knowing that they are in one way or another abusing it leading to dependability and at the latter stages addiction. A vulnerable stage in the human life is usually the adolescent stage where one is faced with the difficult tasks of discovering their self-identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence among other serious developmental stages and in this cases in order to fit in the society the adolescent turn to drugs to satisfy his curiosity.
Peer pressure is also another contributing factor in a teenager’s life where other adolescents pressure or encourage one another to try a certain drug to be able to achieve a certain psychological or emotional level where all the difficult stages of life at that particular moment would seem manageable and achievable.
Drug abuse in Luanda, Kenya is very common in the sense that most people usually tend to use drugs especially Bhang,boza, Ndom, bhang, ganjas as is commonly known I the Kenyan slang or its scientific name Cannabis sativa, which is an hallucinogenic drug which is normally planted illegally in peoples farms and after maturity they are transported illegally to various consumers of the commodity who have different ways of consuming it, that is from smoking to inhaling to chewing the said drug that is according to Tom, a villager in Ebusiekwe village, he says that after smoking bhang all the worries in his life fade away and he experiences some sense of calm and overwhelming strength that normally makes someone to be able to perform even the most difficult tasks in order to take care of himself and his family of seven.
Tom’s life has been characterized by a series of ups and downs and it all started when he was six years of age when his parents died of the killer virus H.I.V AIDS, he had the pressure to look after his four siblings who were left behind for him to cater for, he says that out of the pressure that was coming from his friends, he was introduced to smoking cigarettes but he could not get the “high” that he was looking for until he tried the highly addictive bhang one night at his friend’s house and it was after the first puff,...