Whoonga addicted youth need help urgently
A move by the KZN provincial government might get the near 1000 youth who congregate in Durban off the street.
THIS is not the first time that I have written about the whoonga addicted youth and it probably wont be the last. At around 7.15 on Sunday morning I drove pass the park in the Durban city centre, opposite DUT lower campus and saw the youth, some were waking up, but the vast majority were huddled together, standing as though they were looking at something. Afraid to approach, I continued driving and assumed that they had begun smoking the substance that has been described as a mixture of rat poison and antiretroviral drugs distributed free to HIV sufferers.
As I was about to loose sight of the crowd, I saw a little girl who could not have been more 10 – she was with the crowd. I was shocked at the open way in which the youth were taking the drug. We’ve heard that they are so addicted to the drug that they would do anything to get a quick fix. But what can be done? The city has announced that they are offering rehabilitation to the youth, but we all know that unless they want to be rehabilitated, their recovery is a pie in the sky idea.
but last week the KZN provincial government announced that it had established a substance abuse forum chaired by premier Senzo Mchunu. Let’s hope it has the desired effect and that the youth are once and for rehabilitated.
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