リベリア都市部におけるドラッグ使用の素描

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  • リベリア トシブ ニ オケル ドラッグ シヨウ ノ ソビョウ

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This article reports on drug use in Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia. Liberia experienced a large-scale civil war between 1989 and 2003. Drugs such as cocaine, heroin and marijuana were commonly used during the war by combatants to make them fearless. Although the war came to an end, the drug use issue remains a serious social problem, It has been identified that there are 23 communities crowded with "ghettos" where drugs are sold throughout Monrovia. With an expanding and lucrative trade.drug users are increasing in numbers with abundant supplies. Liberia does not have any strict narcotics law; therefore, suspects arrested for drug crimes merely have to pay a small amount of money as fines in order to be released. A drug user who used to be a police officer said that many police officers were drug users themselves and some ran ghettos, useing connections with drug dealers. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 56 drug users(41 males and 15 females) in two of the ghetto communities. The average age was 31 years old; the oldest was 52 years and the youngest was 16 years. Sixty -one percent of them were ex-combatants. Common jobs for male respondents were odd jobs such as water selling, car washing and drug pushing. Five answered stealing as their jobs. Seventy -three percent of women worked as prostitutes. All the respondents said that they wanted to abandon the cycle of drugs, but they could not as they had no access to medical support and social support to help them find a way out. Based on the social and structural circumstances they face such as lack of health care and rehabilitation systems, the dysfunction of the drug control system, corruption, stigmatization, social exclusion and poverty, it seems that they are obliged to tale drugs in order to survive.

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