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Drug abuse in the workplace has reached "epidemic" proportions, the South African Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca) said today. Sanca director Shamin Garda said businesses suffered significant losses in man-hours and productivity owing to drug abuse. "Employee drug abuse costs the South African economy billions each year," she ...
Read Story at SABCNews (2009-12-02)
Sanca director Shamin Garda said businesses suffered significant losses in man-hours and productivity owing to drug abuse. "Employee drug abuse costs the South African economy billions each year," she said in a statement. The drug of choice for high-powered business people is cocaine, but cheaper drugs ...
Read Story at Times Live (2009-12-02)
Research indicated that drug abusers are becoming younger and it is also estimated that the abuse of drugs cost South Africa"s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over 11 billion rand a year, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said. Speaking in the National Assembly on International Day Against Drug Abuse, he said ...
Read Story at Sunday Times (2003-06-26)
Drug abuse is becoming a pervasive problem and is directly responsible for the increase in robbery, violence and youth restiveness being experienced today in Nigeria, President of Association of Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria, (AISSON) Dr. Ona Ekhomu has said. Drug abuse, according to him, is also responsible for ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2008-03-30)
A United Nations drug report has found that drug abuse in South Africa is escalating by 20% year. The deputy chairperson of the Central Drug Authority, David Bayever, warned that drugs know no boundaries. Bayever"s statement comes after local musician Molemo Maarohanye, popularly known as "Jub Jub", and Themba Tshabalala ...
Read Story at SABCNews (2010-03-21)
Worried by the danger posed by drug abuse, Gombe State government has mapped out strategies to rehabilitate drug abusers in the state. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mohammed Isa Umar, while inaugurating a 12-member drug abuse control committee headed by the state Director of Pharmaceutical Services, Alhaji Waziri Mohammed, said the ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2004-06-26)
UN report says South Africa has one of highest abuse rates in the world SOUTH Africa, which has one of the highest drug-abuse rates in the world, might be flooded with narcotics during the 2010 soccer World Cup. SA the dagga capital of the world Probe ...
Read Story at Sunday Times (2009-07-16)
The fight against corruption should be extended to drug peddling rampant in Coast Province, a lobby group said yesterday. The Coast Drug Abuse Awareness Group said drug abuse was the cause of the high Aids cases in the country. The group chairman, Mr Abdallah Mwamose, appealed to the Narc government ...
Read Story at Daily Nation (2003-10-02)
Around 30 South Africans are arrested every month in Brazil on drug smuggling charges - a huge increase in the past two years as South Africa emerges as a new hub in the global drug smuggling business. SA ‘low-risk’ for drug smugglers Heat is on spy chief ...
Read Story at Sunday Times (2009-03-20)
The Federal Government have been advised to set up policies and programmes to control drug abuse as it is currently doing for HIV/AIDS scourge in the country. A communique issued at the end of a three-day workshop on the link between drug abuse and HIV/AIDS organised by the United Nations ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2003-11-04)
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