By Collins Sarkodieh 
The national enforcement framework managing public health and counter-narcotics has launched a vital safety initiative in the education sector. The Greater Accra Regional Command of the Narcotics Control Commission has successfully trained school counsellors from various Senior High, Vocational, and Technical institutions across the region.
This targeted training workshop equips frontline educators with modern tools to tackle rising drug abuse, build robust early intervention systems, and protect the academic future of Ghanaian students.
The sudden shift in how youth experiment with forbidden chemicals requires a fresh, highly intelligent approach from institutional guidance teams.
Logic dictates that a teacher cannot stop a student from abusing a chemical if the teacher does not even recognize what that chemical looks like. Speaking at the one-day workshop, Acting Regional Commander Mr. Abdul Aziz Ali revealed that students are moving far beyond traditional narcotics like cannabis or cocaine.
Instead, high school teenagers are increasingly destroying their vital organs by abusing dangerous synthetic mixtures like tramadol, shisha, and a local street substance popularly called red. Desperate youngsters are even inhaling toxic everyday liquids including petrol, glue, turpentine, and household paint.
To combat this, NACOC designed the session to teach campus counsellors how to read the silent physical symptoms of addiction early. Supporting the move, Achimota School counsellor Reverend Father Ernest Agyemang described the training as incredibly timely, stressing that parents must actively cooperate with boarding house masters to break the heavy chains of campus peer pressure.
Hoping that our schools will remain safe and prosperous while teenagers are quietly sniffing glue and paint behind classroom blocks is an absolute logical failure. While school management teams work hard to maintain basic campus rules, defeating a complex drug crisis requires total cooperation from parents, religious bodies, and security agencies alike.
True education relies on physical well-being just as much as textbook grades. By giving school counsellors practical modern training and demanding total family honesty, NACOC is using smart logic to clear drugs out of our classrooms and ensure that every Ghanaian child can learn in a safe environment.
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