Port-of-Spain: A report on comparative analysis of drug use by students in Caribbean countries is expressing concern that Caribbean students now have easy access to more hard drugs inclduing cocaine, esctasy and crack cocaine.
The findings were revealed at the Fourth Biennal Meeting of Caribbean National Observatories on Drugs in Port-of-Spain today.
The reportindicates that there is a problem of drug abuse among Secondary Cchool students starting as early as age 12. Analysts studied students from Forms Two to Forms Six and found that while students use cigarettes and alcohol they also gravitate towards harder drugs to which access has become easier, including marijuana, cocaine, ecstacy and crack cocaine.
The survey was done in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
The report is recommendng interventions within the school system to address the illegal drug problem. It recommends school-based education programmes, mass media campaigns and the restriction of access to alcohol and tobaco.
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