The Multisectoral Committee on Drugs and Substance Abuse has launched the National Anti-Drug Action Plan (NADAP) 2025–2030, a five-year national framework aimed at confronting Liberia’s escalating drugs and substance abuse crisis—an issue officials warn is undermining public health, national security, and the country’s long‑term stability.
Speaking during the official unveiling, Dr. Louise M. Kpoto, Minister of Health and Chair of the Multisectoral Steering Committee on Drugs and Substance Abuse, described the NADAP as a unified and strategic national response to a worsening threat.
“This National Anti-Drug Action Plan is a landmark policy instrument developed in response to the growing danger that drugs and substance abuse pose to our public health, social stability, and national development,” Dr. Kpoto said.
She emphasized that young people are bearing the brunt of the crisis, with drug abuse fueling crime, violence, school dropout, unemployment, and rising mental health concerns. These realities, she noted, require “a response that is coordinated, sustained, and firmly grounded in public health, human rights, and social development principles.”
Dr. Kpoto further disclosed that the Plan has received the full endorsement of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr., signaling what she described as the highest level of political commitment to tackling the drug epidemic.
