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I attended a meeting which focused on integrating FP and HIV into RH facilities, during the meeting I remembered an incident that happened to a close neighbour of mine and I thought; why can’t mental and psychological check ups be integrated into YF facilities for young people? I believe some youths who tend to do brutal things as regard their health might have a problem some where be it psychological or mental or in some other cases he/she might be in a perfect state of health. My neighbour is a strong 23 years old young boy, very agile and smart but behaves weird sometimes but since his normal behaviours are more than his weird behaviours we all see it as his way of life. Recently, he began taking marijuana and upgraded to opium and heroine. Whenever he doesn’t take these substances he acts very normal and the only difference I noticed is that whenever he takes any of these he acts sluggish and retires to his room to sleep or do whatever. As a student I see a lot of young boys who indulge in drugs and I decided to take out some time to study their behaviours before and after they take these drugs. Basically I used a young boy who used to live in the same flat with me back in school. He never relates much with girls and I over heard one boy say he never haves sex because he has a low sex drive (libido). Wow! It’s funny how drugs can affect ones sexual reproductive health. My strong neighbour began to deteriorate and soon we were all concerned about his new deteriorating looks. Soon he stopped marijuana. Weeks later I heard he raped a girl. Whatever he began taking improved his sex drive. When he was confronted he said he couldn’t remember doing that. I started noticing his memory loss i.e. short term memory. Too bad he began to forget so much. He began shearing syringes used at the bunk he goes. Only God knows his status. Cases like these have so much bad impact to ones health especially when you can’t remember what you do most times! If we eventually have accessible youth friendly centres this will become easy to tackle.
