2. UNDERSTANDING DRUGS
ADDICTION
(Substance Use Disorder)
EXPLORING EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES
FOR
RECOVERY AND REHABILITATION

3. DRUGS ADDICTION
•Addiction is being abnormally tolerant or
strongly dependent to something
•A Psychological, Physical or/and
Physiological Condition
•Habit forming which is especially
destructive

4. Drug Addict - Subtance Use Disorder

5. Understanding Drugs Addiction
•Dangerous Drugs are substances
deliberately used to distort ones senses
which effects standard behaviour
•Drugs users or abusers get indulged for
the purpose of retreating from the realities
of life or environment

6. RETREATISM
•Retreatism is a sociological term for
withdrawal from society, the extreme of
which is suicide
•Drugs destroy the individual, afflicts the
family, stains the community and
wholesomely damages humanity at large

7. VICTIMS OR OFFENDERS

8. DRUGS DESTROY THE INDIVIDUAL AND
SOCIETY
•Drugs destroy the Individual as misfits and
dangerous
•Drugs afflicts the Family with Shame and Despair
•Drugs stains the Community by harming norms and
values
•Drugs threaten Society with crime, violence and socio-
economic vices

9. STRATEGIES FOR RECOVERY AND
REHABILITATION
•Individual- Control
•Family - Guidance and Support
•Community - Norms and Values
•Local - By-Laws, Regulations Rehab
Centre

10. HADEJIA REHABILITATION
CENTER

11. HIGHER SERVICES
•State - Laws and Mobilisation,
MDAs
•National - Agencies, Sanctions,
Protection
•Regional - Cross Border

12. 31ST HEADS OF NATIONAL DRUGS LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AFRICA

13. STAKEHOLDER ECOSYSTEM
RESPONSE
•Our Youth to be Enlightened on Dangers of Drugs
•Drugs Addiction to be Monitored from Family, Group
and Community Level
•Traditional Rulers to uphold Human Values
•Intervention Projects like the Hadejia Rehab Center
•Governments at all Levels to pay more attention to
thge Drugs Scourge

14. WASSALLAM
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