{"id":87615,"date":"2026-04-11T13:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87615"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:22:20","slug":"14-3-million-nigerians-used-illicit-drugs-in-one-year-as-youth-addiction-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/11\/14-3-million-nigerians-used-illicit-drugs-in-one-year-as-youth-addiction-crisis-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"14.3 million Nigerians used illicit drugs in one year as youth addiction crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lindaikejisblog.com\/photos\/shares\/6791a5ae603d2_1775894020.jpg\" alt=\"14.3 Million Nigerians consumed Illicit drugs in one year\" width=\"539\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>14.3 million Nigerians aged 15-64 used illicit substances in a single year, a prevalence rate nearly three times the global average. <a href=\"https:\/\/inquirer.ng\/2026\/04\/11\/14-3-million-nigerians-used-illicit-drugs-in-one-year-as-youth-addiction-crisis-deepens\/\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>14.3 million Nigerians aged 15-64 used illicit substances in a single year, a prevalence rate nearly three times the global average. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/drugs-Nigeria.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87617,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615\/revisions\/87617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}