{"id":178575,"date":"2024-08-15T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-activist-blasts-governments-neglect-of-at-risk-youths-amid-growing-drug-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T08:00:33","slug":"liberia-activist-blasts-governments-neglect-of-at-risk-youths-amid-growing-drug-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-activist-blasts-governments-neglect-of-at-risk-youths-amid-growing-drug-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Activist Blasts Government&#8217;s Neglect of At-Risk Youths Amid Growing Drug Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Monrovia \u2014 Civil rights activist and Executive Director of the New Life Recovery Center, Jefferson Knight, has criticized the Liberian government for allegedly pretending to help &#8220;at-risk youths&#8221; while providing little or no support for rehabilitating and reintegrating drug addicts across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Mr. Knight referred to a United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) report from about three years ago, which predicted that the number of young people on drugs could rise to over 500,000 by 2025\/2026,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408140570.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 Civil rights activist and Executive Director of the New Life Recovery Center, Jefferson Knight, has criticized the Liberian government for allegedly pretending to help &#8220;at-risk youths&#8221; while providing little or no support for rehabilitating and reintegrating drug addicts across the country. Mr. Knight referred to a United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) report from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[8956,258,256,33310,9606,3723,6949,6201,10778,4712,1107,5972,257,254,8619],"class_list":["post-178575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atrisk","tag-blasts","tag-crisis","tag-drug","tag-growing","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-neglect","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youths"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}