The Cape Town Western Cape
A
recent finding by the Medical Research Council claimed that 2 percent of South
African children are using the drug.
Director of the Cape Town Drug Counseling
Centre Ashley Potts said the Cape Town drug counselling centre statistics that
was indicating that they work with an average amount of people in schools within
the Western Cape but its far less in terms of its numbers and that which the
research deals with.
He added that they are in no way disagreeing or rubbishing as stated in the article, the medical research claim on took the centre South African children using drugs and that this was a factual survey done and they are in support of it.
Meanwhile the Western Cape Department of
Social Development said everybody needs to work together in curbing drug abuse
in the province.
According to official figures, at least 250 000 people in the province are now addicted to tik.
A shocking 36 percent of these are teenagers.
MEC
of the Department of Social Development Albert Fritz explains that they want to
ask all role players specifically where substance abuse is prevalent to take
the department’s hand in getting and becoming part of the solution of the
problem and to please resist the temptation.
He added that sometimes people just site on
the fence and make comments and it is a completely unscientific and irrelevant instead
of helping each other in and around the communities.
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