Recent studies have revealed that about 80 percent of students in second-cycle schools in some Africa countries take alcohol, The Ghanaian Times reports.

This, according to the Deputy Minister of Health, Mr Moses Dani Baah, might have accounted for the recent unimaginable incidents of individuals of school-going age engaging in delinquency of the highest form to the level of car hijacking, ammunition thefts and armed robbery.

He said at the national launching of the Drug Safety and HIV/AIDS campaign week, organised by the Ghana Pharmaceutical Students Association (GPSA) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) that the incidents of drug abuse and other social ills among students and second-cycle institutions in particular, were “very alarming”.

He said the situation is not only detestable to parents but also of grave concern to the government.

It is important to recognize the unique position that university peer educators occupy in the campaign against the dreadful menace threatening the youthful populace, he noted.