This Generation’s Connection To Hard Drugs, Failure
What has become of this generation? It has become a generation losing itself to the claws of hard drugs, addiction, and self-destruction The streets now echo with the wasted dreams of brilliant minds reduced to shadows, not because they lacked potential, but because they were abandoned to poison disguised as pleasure.
Our youths are dying slowly, not just physically, but mentally and morally and we must confront the painful truth: this did not start with them. This is the fruit of parental failure and unchecked peer influence.
Where were the fathers when discipline was needed? Where were the mothers when direction was demanded? Too many homes traded parenting for permissiveness, too many voices that should have corrected, stayed silent. In the absence of guidance, gangs became mentors. When parents stopped watching, the streets started feeding.
Now? The youth gather not for innovation or impact, but for smoke, pills, and powdered death. They call it “high,” but it is the lowest form of escape — from responsibility, from pain, from purpose.
What about their so-called “friends”? They are wolves in disguise, luring them with false brotherhood and temporary pleasure, only to drag them into permanent ruin. Peer pressure has become peer destruction.
We cannot pretend anymore. The drug menace is not just a youth problem. It is a societal failure. A failure of homes, of leadership, of communities that looked away while their future went up in smoke.
To every parent: WAKE UP! Reclaim your place before your child becomes another name on a grave. To every youth: YOU ARE MORE THAN THIS! Your destiny is too great to be traded for a cheap thrill. To every peer group spreading destruction: You are not friends. You are agents of ruin.
It is time to rise, to fight, to rebuild; because if we lose this generation, we have lost everything.
WRITTEN BY Comrade Gideon Ogidigbo
Director of Media and Publicity, One Voice Political Forum
A Concerned Voice for Tangible Growth and developments
