‘Drug use, mental illness feed each other’ – NDLEA boss Marwa

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), has said that cause usage and intelligence unwellness provender each other, informing that “if we lone apprehension the symptoms, we volition support missing the cause.”

In a statement, the Director of Media and Advocacy astatine the NDLEA office successful Abuja, Femi Babafemi, said Marwa made the remark connected Tuesday, October 13, 2026, portion chairing the 5th variation of The Conversation Conference (TCC 5.0), organised by the Intersect Consortium, led by UK-based Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Vincent Udenze, astatine the Nicon Luxury Hotel, Abuja.

The NDLEA brag said the event, held days aft World Mental Health Day, provided an accidental to determination from consciousness to action. He added that down galore cases of cause maltreatment treated astatine the agency’s rehabilitation facilities laic untreated pain.

According to him, “For excessively long, we treated intelligence wellness arsenic a backstage burden, hidden down shame and silence. In my enactment astatine the NDLEA, I spot the outgo of that soundlessness daily. Behind galore cases of cause maltreatment is untreated pain: slump cipher noticed, trauma cipher addressed, a young idiosyncratic who recovered a substance earlier uncovering help. Drug usage and intelligence unwellness provender each other. If we lone apprehension the symptoms, we volition support missing the cause.”

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