Drug addicts now take lizard dung to stay high - NDLEA

Taking lizard dung and gutter water has become the vogue among drug addicts especially in Adamawa, the Commander of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the state, Alhaji Hassan Zungeru, announced on Friday. Zungeru made the announcement in an interview in Yola. He said that most of the drug addicts in the state were unemployed youths who could not afford costly hard drugs. "Lizard dung and gutter water arenow becoming an emerging trend because the classified drugs of abuse are beyond the reach of the youths who are mostly unemployed," he said. He listed Indian hemp, Tramol, rubber solution for vulcanising and cough syrup with codeine as some of the commonly abused substances in state. The commander said that the development had prompted the agency to collaborate with the Adamawa Emirate Council to get the support of the State Government to embark on sensitisation and awareness tour of rural areas to educate the people against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking. He said the first leg of the tour which had reached advanced stage under the leadership of Sarkin Matasa, (Youth Leader of Adamawa Emirate), Abdulaziz Nyako, would cover 33 districts in the emirate. "Immediately after covering Adamawa Emirate in the first leg of the tour, we will move to others like Mubi and Numan," he said.