{
  "id": 746502,
  "title": "10% of drug users in Ghana started before age 15 – NACOC",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/10-of-drug-users-in-ghana-started-before-age-15-nacoc",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-13T08:06:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/10-of-drug-users-in-ghana-started-before-age-15-nacoc/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Director-General of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), Major General Maxwell Obuba, has raised concerns over the increasingly young age at which some people in Ghana begin using drugs. According to him, a 2025 study by the University of Ghana School of Public Health found that 10% of people who use drugs started before the […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}