Akuskura: NDLEA warns Nigerians over new deadly psychoactive substance

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has warned Nigerians regarding the surfacing of a new deadly psychoactive substance which has made its way into various parts of Nigeria.

According to an article by the Special Assistant to the Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Mahmud Isa Yola, the substance called Akuskura is of different varieties, and is used in both liquid and powdered form by people who are mostly seeking to raise their levels of psychological or nervous activity in the body.

Recently, there has been a rapid emergence of a dangerous new psychoactive substance known as Akuskura/Kuskura, which is made of herbs laced with tobacco and cannabis and which is rapidly replacing controlled psychoactive substances, dominantly in the northern and south-west parts of Nigeria. When taken, the substance sometimes causes sudden, violent, irregular movement of the body and contraction of muscles.

The substance, which is of different varieties, is used in both liquid and powdered form by people who mostly seek to raise their levels of psychological or nervous activity in the body, or put it in simple terms, get high. Following the record-breaking seizure, the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in a press briefing at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja on August 19th, made the announcement of the official ban of the psychoactive substance.

 

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Whyyyy can’t death ☠️ penalties be given to drug traffickers. Drug users be given stiffest punishment. The ones that are ready to quit should be given decent rehabilitation. Hard drugs use is fueling insecurities across the country. Stiffer penalties for offenders highly needed.

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