• Mission

To provide with professionalism, a unique and uncommon educational services on Alcohol, Drug and HIV/AIDS’s awareness to our families, communities, governmental agencies, educational institutions, multinationals and private organizations.

• Vision

To be in the forefront of alcohol and drug rehabilitation in our nation. We want to bring the knowledge of addiction as it relates to HIV/AIDS spread in our society.

• Why CADAHA?

The Center for Alcohol Drugs and HIV Awareness (CADAHA) is anon-governmental agency for the advancement of education and awareness of the devastating aftermath of drug addiction and its relationship to the spread of HIV/Aids in our society.

Every day we hear about drug burst, motor accidents, robberies, cultism, prostitution, ritual killings, rape and other vices of the society. We also recognize the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol in our communities but nobody seems to ask what to do to find a lasting solution to these problems.

Every developed nation or state has a commission or agency that monitors and regulates the treatment of drugs and alcohol addicts. Drug treatment is not drug enforcement. The duties of such commissions include but not limited to the qualification and licensure of agencies and individuals providing services to drug addicts and their families, the communities and the entire society; to keep the statistics on drug and alcohol related offences; sponsor research on the best available programs for drug and alcohol prevention; teach relapse prevention and other rehabilitation techniques. We cannot think of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of subsequent strategic goals without such an agency in our country.

The duties of CADAHA are to provide educational services on drug and alcohol addiction as well as HIV/AIDS awareness. We cover every aspect of this field from its history to the latest treatment techniques.

Did you know that between 1990 and 2009, National Drug law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the nation’s drug enforcement Agency arrested 2,794,733 persons on marijuana possession alone. In about the same period, 2,827,862 individuals were arrested on cases involving other hard drugs.

On Tuesday, 29th March 2011, the Editorial of the Daily Sun reported on World Health Organization’s (WHO) alert on alcohol abuse. The article disclosed that “abuse of the substance causes nearly (4) percent more deaths than the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis, worldwide”. The global health body put the number of deaths from alcohol abuse, every year at 2.5 Million. The Organization decried the failure of most governments to institute strong alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities. Establishment of such centers, the article continued “will help reduce the huge cost of alcohol abuse exacts from the economy in form of accident, kidney and liver diseases and other ailment”.

These offenders were referred to the judiciary for prosecution. If American Medical Association’s (AMA) definition of addiction as a disease is justified, you do not send one with malaria to prison. Treatment should be the right answer. The big question then is “where do we treat our addicts in this country or what counseling centers are available for them? Of the 5,622,595 who were arrested between 1990 and 2009 on drug charges, how many received treatment for their drug problem? Individuals with addiction problems should be treated and not prosecuted unless they fail to participate in drug treatment programs. The need for drug treatment centers is now and CADAHA wants to bring her expertise and contribute in this sector of our nation’s development.

• Goals

The Center for Alcohol Drugs and HIV Awareness (CADAHA) is established as a non-governmental agency equipped to provide educational and counseling services on drug and addiction as well as HIV awareness. Our Goals include:-

• To provide educational awareness to the general public on the dangers of drug addiction.
• To teach the effects of addiction in the work place.
• To teach the effects of drug and alcohol addiction in the families.
• To teach the effect of drugs and alcohol addiction on our elderly population and abuse of prescription drugs.
• To teach the effects of drug and alcohol on the pregnant women and unborn child.
• To show addiction as it relates to the ills of the society (prostitution, cultism, road accidents, robberies etc).
• To teach the relationship between drug and alcohol abuse and the spread of HIV/AIDS.
• To teach the public what HIV/AIDS really is, how it is contacted or spread and the prevention in a cultural appropriate context.
• To teach our clients treatments available for HIV/AIDS and how to live with the disease in a cultural appropriate context.