{"id":11593,"date":"2023-09-11T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11593"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:57:02","slug":"nacada-reports-a-90-rise-in-the-usage-of-bhang-over-the-past-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11593","title":{"rendered":"NACADA reports a 90% rise in the usage of bhang over the past five years."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent survey conducted by NACADA concerning substance abuse in Kenya has sparked significant concern regarding the increasing prevalence of cannabis use, particularly among young people. The data unveils some alarming patterns in the initiation and consumption of drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the report from the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA), roughly one out of every 53 Kenyan citizens aged 15 to 65, amounting to an astonishing 518,807 individuals, is presently engaged in cannabis use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the case of males aged 15 to 65, the rate is even higher, with one out of every 26 individuals (475,770) currently using cannabis. Shockingly, for females, the figure stands at one out of every 333 (43,037).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aa-2023-09-11T114756.189-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aa-2023-09-11T114756.189-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aa-2023-09-11T114756.189-1-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aa-2023-09-11T114756.189-1-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey conducted by NACADA concerning substance abuse in Kenya has sparked significant concern regarding the increasing prevalence of cannabis use, particularly among young people. The data unveils some alarming patterns in the initiation and consumption of drugs. According to the report from the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aa-2023-09-11T114756.189.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11596,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions\/11596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}