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Speaking at the opening ceremony of a 6-day Training of first batch of Principals of Lagos State on the “Universal Prevention Curriculum for Substance Use Disorders” which was held today at Lagos State Model College, Meiran, Agbado, Lagos, the National Co-ordinator, Universal Prevention Curriculum and the Founder, Global Initiative on Substance Abuse , Dr.
“You will agree with me that this training would not have come at a better time than now especially with the worrisome trend in substance abuse among youths in Nigeria and Lagos state in particular. Report from the 2018 national drug use survey shows that Lagos state has the highest number of persons who use drugs in Nigeria. This calls for urgent steps among everyone in Lagos state. This is not the time to sit on the fence.
While declaring the conference opened, the Permanent Secretary, Education District 1, Lagos State, Dr. Yinka Ayandele pointed out that the advocacy will be taking beyond school principals to the parents and also to communities. Her words “We are going to have a drug controlled systems practitioners in schools.
Speaking on the importance of the training, the Convener of the training and Founder Isaac Adetolu Foundation, Mr Olatunde Isaac Adetolu, said it was to give stakeholders especially principals of various Secondary Schools in the state the evidence based prevention intervention theories and skills of what to do with the phenomenon of drug abuse which is becoming a national phenomenon and if not contained can lead to a national disaster.
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