What women do with used sanitary pad in Gombe, NDLEA reveals

The Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Gombe State has revealed a new method on how women in the state are getting high.

At a sensitisation exercise in the state, the commander in charge of the Funakaye command of the agency, Muhammad Alkali, said the act of drug abuse among women in Gombe has increased from normal addiction to drugs to now boiling of used sanitary pads filtering and drinking the water to get high.

Speaking at the palace of the Emir of Funakaye where the sensitisation exercise took place, Alkali said, “It has come to our notice that mostly female addicts have devised means of getting high without consuming constitutionally-band or known substances.

“They now boil used sanitary pads mixed with other substance mostly waste, filters the water before drinking.”

The commander added that; “You see this is very bad for as humans, our society really needs the help of all and sundry in this fight as NDLEA cannot do it alone” .