 To the news brief, as part of F4 to mitigate the negative impact of substance and drug abuse among teaming youth and women across the country, the Cardinal State government has reiterated its commitment to court down the supply chain and distribution of harmful drugs that is detrimental to the livelihood of each citizen across 23 local government areas of the state. Against this concern, Cardinal State Deputy Governor Dr Adiza Balarabi stated these are terms sought to shame if brimows in Cardinal State is the availability of drugs as a triple effect on society leading to out-of-school children. If we don't take out those who bring those drugs, we can never make a difference on the demand side. We're trying for drug abuse prevention and treatment, but we need to take out the availability, the supply side so that they don't really go back to those areas. We have children abusing various substances and it breaks my head to see that kind of thing. So please, we can't do it all alone. Also, the National President of the Medical Women Association of Nigeria, Dr Zainab Khwary, says the fact of drug and substance abuse could be detrimental to a person's mental state, health, and noted. That is one of the major key areas that must be focused, which is affecting family, children and women, stressing the need for collaboration to tackle the menace in the society. We all have to play our roles. We as medical women, we have expertise in addressing or even preventing some of these issues, but we look up to other groups, right from the family level, at the community level, the various structures that we have, the various constraint groups that we have will need to put us together, including the government and other non-governmental associations, to see that we address this, it's like a monster that we have in our society. So it has to be a collective effort to deal with it and to prevent our young ones and our people from falling into the problem of drug and substance abuse. I think a lot of the problems that we have have an underpinning drug challenge. The donor amongst the high prevalence states and for me, that is not something that I'm really happy about. You know that non-drug abuse from what we used to know before, traditionally where it happens in urban areas, we don't see people even in rural areas are using.