NAFDAC Seizes Two Trucks Of Tramadol

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, says it has confiscated two trucks laden with tramadol.

The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, disclosed this atthe public launch of drug related health policies and guidelines in Abuja on Monday.

At the event tagged, ‘The National Policy for Controlled Medicines, National Guidelines for the Estimation of Psychotropic Substances and Precursors and National Minimum Standards for Drug Dependence Treatment in Nigeria’, the NAFDAC boss said the tramadol would have been sold to youths. 

Adeyeye said, “Using drugs is centrally controlled or central nervous system-based which means it hits the brain immediately and it changes the user to somebody else.

 During the first use and second use, the brain of the user becomes very different because of dependence.“They are no longer able to control themselves and that is where the crime, terrorism come in.

Therefore, please let the word go out that drug use comes with consequences.“Of course, we are going after the peddlers.

 As we speak, we just intercepted two lorries full of tramadol this morning. 

And where arethey going? 

They are going to the Ajegunles of Nigeria, to the Kanos of Nigeria. 

Who are they targeting?

Our children. Therefore, we need to all come in. It’s our business.”The NAFDAC boss said many youthswere dying of drug overdose because it was very easy for them to access addictive drugs.

She also called on the National Assembly to amend the law such thatdrug peddlers could be given stiffer penalties.“There are prosecutions and there arearrests. However, personally speaking the sentences are very mild. 

We need stiffer sentences. 

There wasa case in which someone was sentenced to one and a half years or a fine of N200,000. Is N200,000 enough to pay for a life?” Adeyeye said.

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Gynaecologist says contraceptive use in Nigeria low

Prof. Abiodun Aboyeji of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of College of Health Science, Universityof Ilorin, on Saturday, said the use of contraceptives in Nigeria was low.

He made this known in his paper presentation during a seminar in Ilorin entitled“Pregnancy: The Burden of Womanhood.

”The gynaecologist said even though Nigerian women knew about contraceptives,most of thosein reproductive age group would not want to use them.

Contraceptive or birth control is a device or drug designed to prevent process of pregnancy after unprotected sex.

There are different kinds of birth control that act at different points in the process, from ovulation, through fertilisation, to implantation, even though each method has its own side effects and risks.

Aboyeji noted that a survey conducted in Ilorin found thefear of side effects as commonest reason for non-use of contraceptives among women.

He said “other reasons include contraception being unnecessary, religious beliefs and husbands or fiance being against its use.

’’He also said that even though most female adolescents in Ilorin had high knowledge of HIV/AIDS and knew that condom use could prevent it, only few of them use it.

He noted that the commonest source of knowledge of HIV/AIDS was through friends, while other people had the belief that thecondition could be transmitted through use of the same bath towel.

The expert urged government at all levels to formulate policy of free and compulsory education for the society.

He said an informed society would be able to use such information appropriately, especially in area of health.Family planning, maternal health imperative:

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