| The Iringa Regional Commissioner Amina Masenza ( in red veil) listens to the Acting Director Forensic Science and Human DNA Services David Elias when she visited the pavilion of Government Chemist Laboratory Authority (GCLA) yesterday in Iringa during the international day against drug abuse exhibition. (Photo by Friday Simbaya) |
| Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Iringa Amina Masenza (watatu kushoto) akipata maelezo kutoka kwa Ofisa wa mamlaka ya khdhibiti na kupambana na dawa za kulevya (DCCEA) alipotembelea banda la Maonesho jana wakati wa uzinduzi wa maadhimisho ya Sikh ya kupambana na dawa za kulevya duniani yatayofanyika Kitaifa mkoani hapa. (Picha na Friday Simbaya). |
THE Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa is expected to be the guest of honour during the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking falls on June 26 each year.
The day is set to raise awareness of the major problem that illicit drugs represent to society. This day is supported by individuals, communities and various organizations all over the world.
Speaking yesterday during inauguration of International Day Against Drug Abuse celebrations which will be held at national level in Iringa, Iringa Regional Commissioner Amina Masenza said the community should come together and fight against the drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking.
She said that the war against drug abuse and illicit trafficking should be a collective responsibility and appealed to parents and guardians to be responsible about the parental care.
RC Masenza said parents should make sure they give parental care to their children by providing necessary needs to them and make they were growing up with good parental care.
“The parents and guardians should be responsible of their children grownups and make sure they teach them good moral,” she said.
She also praised the sober houses that are centers for restoring people affected by illicit drugs by offering treatment to people with excessive drugs and alcohol and providing vocational training and general education.
She appealed to religious leaders and teachers to come together identify their worshippers and students who are using illicit drugs respectively.
However, RC Masenza has also appealed the police not arrest people found sleeping in the streets due to drug abuse but instead they should take them to the hospitals of sober houses because by putting those in the police customs will only overpopulate police cells.
Adding that sober living homes are group homes for people who are recovering from addiction issues by trying to stop them from drinking or using drugs.
Tanzania's Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority (DCEA) Commissioner General Rodgers Sianga said the situation in Tanzania is still not good and people have to join forces if the war against drugs has to be won.
He said fighting drugs was proving hard because very influential people were behind the drugs syndicate.
Sianga said drug traffickers were now investing in clandestine industries to produce new psychotropic substances as an alternative means to the missing cocaine and heroin in the market.
The long-serving police officer Rogers William Sianga said the government is now giving a free methadone pills to everyone with drug addictions.
He said methadone pills are used to prevent withdrawal symptoms in patients who were addicted to opiate drugs and are enrolled in treatment programs in order to stop taking or continue not taking the drugs.
The United Nations’ (UN) International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is celebrated each year on June 26th, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime uses the commemorative day to highlight the dangers of drug use and their illegal trade and provides educational material to teachers and public officials all over the world.
The day is also used to spread the message about the extreme cultural and economic harm the trade in drugs is still doing across the globe one hundred years after the war on drugs was initially launched in Shanghai around the start of the 20th Century. By Friday Simbaya, Iringa
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