… describes the drug situation as follows: ‘South Africa is a society in transition. Drug use …
the increased prominence of illicit drug use in South African society is high unemployment.’…

… scourge of illicit drug abuse in South Africa with a specific focus on three communities in
the West Rand region of Johannesburg. Localisation in these programs is evidenced by Local …

… is the most common illicit substance used in South Africa, with particularly high use among
the … Cannabis is the most common illicit substance used in South Africa, in keeping with world …

… illicit drug use makes a substantial contribution to the global burden of disease: in 2000, it
was estimated that illicit drug use (broadly defined as “problem” or injecting use … illicit drug use …

… Another confounder could be use of other illicit substances. Illicit drug use is not uncommon
in persons with TB. In South Africa, methaqualone (locally known as Mandrax) and …

… , past-month marijuana use, and lifetime illicit drug use among high school students in South
Africa to those among high school students in the United States. Our second objective was …

… be solely on illicit drugs. However, an effective approach to addressing the problems of
substance abuse in the sub-continent will require giving attention to all drugs, including alcohol, …

… drug consumption in South Africa is twice the world’s norm and that an estimated 15% of South
Africans have a drug problem… Nyaope is a relatively new South African illicit drug which is …

… explore how the ‘problem of AODs’ has been articulated in South Africa's third NDMP, and
… In doing so, we identify the discursive strategies used to render AODs (especially illicit drugs…

… (SSA), including a marked decline in incidence in Eastern and Southern Africa since 2010
[1, 2]. Concurrent with the HIV epidemic, the SSA region also has the highest estimates of …