Research
The Effect of Drug Abuse on Youths in Portloko Town, Northern Sierra Leone
Drug abuse and addiction have been part of youths in this part of the community in their existing social systems, affecting crime rates, hospitalizations, child abuse, and child neglect, frustration, insane, and disability, HIV /AIDS, Scabies and skin diseases, anaemia, pale in colour. those who take intra venous injections suffer from HIV/aids. Youth nowadays try various drugs so that they feel different from normal, Drugs has become a fashion amongst youth nowadays, both boys and girls are greatly involved in this habit. This paper is presenting the results of the causes, types, effects on the individuals, families, and community as a whole. The different types of drugs taken by youth in these communities were tramadol, pampas, Evostick-, super glue, marijuana, tobacco, pounded tobacco with bicarbonate of soda (snuff), cocaine, petrol, Araldite, kola nut, and alcohol. The factors that lead to the intake of these drugs are as follows, unemployment, lack of effective mentorship, lack of family values, poor parenting guidance, and loss of hope easily assessable, and affordable, peer group influence, cults, secret societies in contributed to youths going into drug This study.
Identification of Functional Foods and Factors Influencing their Consumption in Port Loko District Northern Sierra Leone
Functional foods are foods that we eat daily and are found in market. The attitude towards limited because of poverty, traditional/religious believe, taboos, illness. Most of these foods are grow in the area of study, but because of poor processing, poor handling harvesting, preservation there are lots of wastages when these foods are in season as there is no know how of low to presence then, and there is a problem of proper handling of these foods due to poor road network and transportation, most of these foods weltered before they reach the final consumer and most of the nutrient find in these foods what have perished, people in this community farm, rear cattle, fishing but do not eat, then, prefer selling them to buy other basic Needs, all these factor contribute to nutritional deficiency which lead to ill health. Functional roads found in this community provides energy, body building, and protect the body from diseases. They have been. It was recommended that the government through the ministry of Agriculture provide resources like staff loans or farmer, fishermen, market sellers, cattle rarer etc, organize workshops, sameness, focus group discussion, Radio bud television talks shows, about the essence of eating functional foods and to deviate from certain believes and taboos about these foods • Nutritionist to give health talks at health clinics/health post • Governments to build market stalls and lay emphasises on the seller of fresh, clean and quality body available foods in the market.
