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Passion Mvenge St Mary’s College of Academy (U6) —
The community is not developing but rather deteriorating because the young generation, the backbone of the nation is destroying their lives by indulging in “suicidal methods of running away from problems .”
They feed each other with lies on relieving one’s stressful life by taking drugs. In an interview with Jabu*, one of the young people, a victim to drug abuse, he talked of marijuana , broncleer, pills for mentally challenged people and histalix as some of the drugs most young people are taking.
He also mentioned that ever since he started taking drugs he has caused so much trouble in his family as he would always steal money from them to buy drugs.
Jabu wanted to stop taking drugs and asked his father for help. The concerned father started a small business of selling gas for him but not a day passed without him using all the profit for drugs.
“This got me broke in the end ,” he said.
He even had to run away from home because his father, the only person left believing in him to do better, was furious with him.
He went on and said that because of the addiction he now has for the drugs he will not manage to make anything out of his life.
“I have tried to get a job and tell myself that I will stop if I am lucky enough to get one but to no avail. I am fired before you know it, I spend my salary on drugs that’s if I pull through to month end.
“So as jobless as I am, I am still on drugs, with no one willing to help me because ndakavatsotsa pakawanda vachida kundibatsira. I now have a bleak future,” he cried.
The question now is what awaits these drug addicts in future? Will they ever gain trust from their families?
Most of these young people say they are resorting to drugs because of peer pressure, to gain more self-confidence, to fit in, to relax and to feel better; to get over being sad or lonely.
The elderly are worried about what the future is going to be if young people are prioritizing drugs more than education.
The solution for these young people taking drugs is for adults to not give up on them but give them parental guidance, care, love and counselling so as to stop taking drugs and focus more on education.
It only takes a willing heart to unite with others and help the young people stop taking drugs for they are harmful to their health and a threat to the community and nation at large.
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