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Children as young as six abusing drugs, new government study says

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National Authority for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse (Nacada) chairman Stephen Mairori (left) and Interior PS Raymond Omollo (centre), among other officials, during the launch of the latest survey on the status of drug and substance abuse in Kenya at the Weston Hotel in Nairobi on Friday, May, 12,2023. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Children as young as six years old are now abusing drugs, the latest government report shows.

The report released on Friday, May 12, 2023, by the National Authority for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse (Nacada) notes that the minimum age for children using drugs had been 11 over the years.

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