Radio Drama for Community Dialogue on Substance Abuse among Youths in Kano Metropolis
Abstract
The study explains how a radio drama, Gardo Gardo was used as a forum for community dialogue on the pervading challenge of substance abuse among youths in Kano Metropolis. Since 2013, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has continued to rank Kano State top among states with highest number of drug abusers and addicts in Nigeria. This is equally affirmed in the 2018 NDLEA report that an estimated 3 million bottles of codeine among other psychoactive drugs were being consumed (without official medical prescription) daily by young male and female adults in Kano. Using in-depth interview and focus group discussion for collection of data that were analysed within the frame of reader response theory which emphasizes individual interpretations of creative texts, the study discovered that unguarded passion, peer pressure, and lack of parental guidance as primary drivers of substance abuse in Kano. It also revealed that stigmatization exacerbates the problem, while love, care and support possess the potentials to mitigate the prevalence of substance abuse among young people in Kano Metropolis.
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