{"id":205563,"date":"2025-08-26T22:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-new-report-recommends-holistic-approach-to-drug-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:42:19","slug":"liberia-new-report-recommends-holistic-approach-to-drug-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-new-report-recommends-holistic-approach-to-drug-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: New Report Recommends Holistic Approach to Drug Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">A new EU-backed report warns Liberia faces a drug use &#8220;apocalypse&#8221; that needs a holistic approach to combat<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers say the growing number of users &#8211; now one in five Liberian young people &#8211; is driven by unemployment, broken families, and dealers targeting school children.<\/li>\n<li>The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency admits it is crippled by lack of resources, while civil society accuses government of &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221; and experts call for treatment, education, and community action rather than punishment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508260311.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>A new EU-backed report warns Liberia faces a drug use &#8220;apocalypse&#8221; that needs a holistic approach to combat Researchers say the growing number of users &#8211; now one in five Liberian young people &#8211; is driven by unemployment, broken families, and dealers targeting school children. The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency admits it is crippled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,10111,3723,6949,25833,4712,1107,257,7882,5144,254],"class_list":["post-205563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approach","tag-crisis","tag-drug","tag-holistic","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-recommends","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/205563","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=205563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}