Highlight of 2020 Drug Policy Year
This year took a different dimension that the global community did not anticipate. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps in human development policies and further exposed age-long challenges faced by People Who Use Drugs, and other Inadequately Served Populations. Nonetheless, this year has revealed laudable community resilience in responding to the challenges posed by the pandemic. …
Detained Yet Unchanged
I used to work as a security officer in one of the banks in Abuja. One day after work I was with some of my friends and we were smoking cannabis. Suddenly we sighted the police coming for us and we all ran. Unfortunately for me I got arrested while the others escaped. I was …
Abigail’s Story
My name is Abigail. Last year December 20th. I went to the club, when I was coming back I saw some group of police people; though it was late hours, then I was coming back from the club. They were 5 in number. They stopped me and asked me where I was coming from, so …
Tortured To Change
My parent knew I was doing drugs and it was getting out of hand and I had a couple of problems with my education. My parent got angry and was advised by someone, whom the only place he knew was a place where they torture someone to repent. Torture in the sense that, in your …