JUNKIES: A TICKING TIME-BOMB

THAT the growing menace of junkies has continued to receive little attention from the authorities and the public is a cause for concern.The so-called junkies are often dismissed and ignored without realising that they pose a danger to the country’s development and well-being.Simply writing them off as being social misfits who must be left to their own devices is behaving like the proverbial camel – hiding one’s head in the sand to escape from impending danger.For now, most are young, making people fail to recognise the potential danger they pose when they grow up.Government and other stakeholders, particularly the Church must raise their act to tackle this growing social menace head on.As the Catholic Church says, the problem of junkies is a ticking time bomb that will wreck the country’s development gains if left unchecked. Archbishop of Lusaka Alick Banda rightly observes that the escalating problem of junkies will explode and cause a catastrophic effect to […]