The University of Nairobi Anti-Drugs and Substance Abuse Campaign (UNADSAC) recently held a stimulus event that challenged participants to keep off drugs. Themed ‘The battlefield is in your mind,’ the event saw Mr. Kiragu Ndero, a senior lecturer and counselling psychologist at the Department of Psychology, University of Nairobi give the main address.

Mr. Ndero gave a passionate, informative teaching on matters relating to drugs. These included definition and types of addiction such as drug, sex/people, food, medicine, work, money and religion.

He elaborated on the categories of drugs that included ordinary pain killers, narcotics, hypnotics and sedatives, stimulants, hallucinogens and psychedelics. Other topics included why people take drugs, dancing with the devil and the effect of drug abuse.

UNADSAC is an initiative that aims to counteract the effect of drug traffickers within and outside the university. This will be achieved through the constant exposure of students and other members of the society, to the pragmatic campaign message, ‘CAN MAKE IT, DRUG FREE.’