Seminar explores drug addiction in African American community

Africa is among those countries that are struggling with their drug addiction problem. So many people and families have been affected because of this. This problem is also affecting their economy and of course, the society as a whole. This is why it is everyone’s goal to solve this problem as soon as possible. Now, the African community has conducted a seminar that aims to explore drug addiction.

Anita Muhammed is turning grief and guilt into good, bad as it may still feel. “I lost somebody I loved. From my standpoint because I ignored it for a long time thinking it would work itself out for a long time. Cut I didn’t realize the seriousness of it,” said Muhammed, fighting back tears. Though she never imagined or realized what was going on at first, just over two months ago, on September 23rd, her daughter Jasmine died of an overdose.  Anita said Jasmine had been battling an opioid addiction and eventually when the Percocets she’d been abusing were mixed with fentanyl, the addiction won.

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“I felt like I could do a lot more. But there’s nothing I could do about that now but I can do a lot of good now to help parents and their children so that that doesn’t happen to them,” she said.

For the first time, Anita is speaking publicly about Jasmine’s life and death to help others, particularly African Americans.

“In the black community it’s difficult to talk about,” she said.

She joined others like Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts, 1 of a handful of speakers at the health department’s “Basics of drug addiction in the African American Community” seminar, said Muhammed’s story is an example of why it’s important to reach out to the black community, who often don’t ask for help because of stigma. The problem’s worse for someone who doesn’t have insurance or relies on Medicaid, when there already aren’t enough rehab facilities and beds for treatment. Most addicts are then put on waiting lists and told to call back.

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Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh goes mad after serious drug addiction issues

A destroyed life has become so common as a result of drug addiction. This is such a sad reality and in spite of this, still, so many people choose to use drugs. Of course, there could be so many reasons why one would decide to use drugs, but it all boils down to one thing- destruction. Drugs can destroy the person in all aspects. Now, another victim has come to the picture.

Dr. Olakunle Churchill, ex-husband of Nollywood performing artist, Tonto Dikeh has hit back at her over the most recent unmerited attacks. Olakunle Churchill in a selective meeting with newsmen asserted the on-screen character is on medications and perhaps it is step by step transforming her into a mad individual.

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According to, dailyadvent.com, Tonto had described her ex-husband and father of her son as a fraudster ‘yahoo boy’. But the man told this portal that she is on a desperate course to ruin his reputation with unprovoked attacks suspecting she may have gone made as a result of the addiction to drugs though will not name which specific drug it was.

“She wants to ruin me by force. She has called me several names to ruin my personality; ritualist rug dealer, fraudster, gay , murderer , she is pained and she is finding it very hard to move on , she is on drugs. Insulting my mum lying up and down…she can’t get over me and she is mad. She started from domestic violence but when I showed prove that she was the violent one she kept changing from one allegation to another”, he revealed.

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Intruder who jumped inside crocodile exhibit had history with drugs

With drugs, it is like everything is possible, even the most daring and deadliest things. This is why drugs are so dangerous because it leads a person to be more of a risk-taker in a bad way. We have so many stories of people committing crimes, crossing the road not caring if they’ll get hit by cars or not, and now, here’s a man who jumped into a crocodile pool and this man had a history with drugs.

Surveillance video from Monday night shows a man jumping into the crocodile pool at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm. A short while later, a crocodile bit him. “He gets bit, and goes out [of the water] and for some reason goes back in,” Alligator Farm Director John Brueggen said. “Yeah. That’s why I’m concerned for someone like this.” Police say the man who broke into the Alligator Farm and hung out for hours in the Nile Crocodile enclosure is 23-year-old Brandon Keith Hatfield of Green Cove Springs.

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While Brueggen said he was worried about his crocodiles, he is also worried about the man’s mental state.

“I’m concerned about him. I don’t know if it was a suicide attempt or if he was on so many drugs he didn’t know what he was doing,” Brueggen said.

The St. Augustine Police told First Coast News that Hatfield was “probably high on something” and that a toxicology test was done to determine what was in his system. The results have not been released.

A look through Hatfield’s criminal history shows he just got out of jail Friday, three days before his visit with the crocodiles. He had been in the St. Johns County jail on charges of drug possession for methamphetamine and for stealing a car.

Social media posts from people who know Hatfield indicate he has struggled with drugs…

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New Program Addresses Pregnancy and Drug Addiction

It can be observed that through the years, drug addiction has become a very serious problem in different aspects. More than ever, more people are committing drug overdose now, younger people are more daring to try drugs, and more women are willing to their risk their own lives and that of their family just because of drugs. There are even so many pregnant women who still use drugs, without considering how detrimental it can be for their unborn child.

This has led local officials to exert more effort to address pregnancy and addiction with new treatment programs. The new Substance-free Pregnancy and Recovery Coalition or SPARC is an initiative Chippewa County officials say is a response to the growing drug epidemic. “SPARC came about as a result of an observation in Chippewa County about the number of kids who are being removed from their homes due to this meth epidemic,” said Melissa Ives, contracted Project Manager for the Chippewa County Department of Human Services.

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The new program geared towards expectant mothers, fighting addiction hopes to change that. The project aims at identifying pregnant women upfront who many need to be referred to treatment.

“Initial identification may be made by a number of different entities…it may be made by the health provider, may be the substance use provider, could be a social worker, could be a health department worker,” said Ives.

She adds that the program explores potential barriers that prevent women from coming in and obtaining care.

“One of those is the fear that the baby will be taken away from them…that is not what we want,” said Ives. She says the program aims at treating mothers in a way that allows her to keep custody of her baby. The goal is to keep families intact for the long run.

Many local health providers are getting involved in the program as addiction poses a huge risk to pregnant mothers and their babies. Katie Jelinek, Registered Nurse at HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital treats patients in both Chippewa and Eau Claire Counties. She says there is a great need for a program like this in the area.

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