Under-recognized Threat: The Habit of Glue Sniffing amongst Street Children and the State Duty to Protect and Fulfill
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2017-06
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AAU
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Drugs in general and inhalant misuses in particular serves as a major impediment for children in realizing their basic rights and have a huge role in limiting their evolving capacity to a full-fledged responsible individual. This is even more obvious with regard to street children who are bounded with different other crosscutting socio-economic problems. Inhalant substance abuse and more specifically glue sniffing is a growing problem in developing countries like Ethiopia.
The research was initiated to explore the magnitude in the abuse of a substance, glue, amongst street children and the level of protection provided to that effect. The research was designed qualitatively to look in to the lived experiences of the targeted street children and relies on their perceptions and views regarding the magnitude and overall undertaking. Moreover, perceptions from different offices and stakeholders were collected besides reviewing available laws and literatures to identify the level of protection.
The study identify the widely and more frequent use of the substance among street children in major streets of Addis leading them to numerous health hazards. This accompanied with different other socio-economic problems adversely affects their healthy development. The level of protection provided by the government and different other stakeholders is very minimal with very much uncoordinated and disorganized manner.
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Street Children,Drugs,children rights