Life on streets

Abstract

After circumstances at home force these kids to escape, they are caught up in yet another world of exploitation, hunger, violence and abuse.

The epidemiology of substance use among street children in resource‐constrained settings: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…There were studies from 22 countries, the majority (62%) being from Africa [5,6,8,13,24–36] and South and Central America [10,18–20,37–46], with the remainder located in Asia [9,47–57], the Middle East [58,59] and Europe [60–64]. Almost all studies (41 of 50) were cross-sectional.…”

“…Table 2 presents the methodological and geographical characteristics of the 50 studies. There were studies from 22 countries, the majority (62%) being from Africa [5,6,8,13,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] and South and Central America [10,[18][19][20][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46], with the remainder located in Asia [9,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57], the Middle East [58,59] and Europe [60][61][62][63]…”

“…The use of other psychoactive substances, including pharmaceuticals (six studies) [13,19,28,34,40,61] and injection drugs (seven studies), were reported much less frequently. Injection drug use occurred primarily in two Eastern European studies [61,63] (43% crude unweighted mean); the remaining studies reporting injection drug use were from South and Central America [10,38], Asia [51,57] and the Middle East [58], all with a low prevalence (3% crude unweighted mean). Table 4 presents the characteristics analyzed by studies utilizing bivariate and multivariate analyses to test associations between selected variables and substance use.…”

The Perception of Clients in Rehabilitation Center on Inhalant Use

“…According to Hollen (2009) in Rozmi, Azri, Fauziah and Salina (2017), he defined inhalant abuse as an act that violates the proper use of the procedure or uses a prohibited substance such as narcotics, drugs, substances contained in alcohol or any substance or bythe way that can put others in a dangerous state. Substance abuse in street children around the world is between 50% and 80% (Tiwari, 2006) and inhalant becomes one of the most commonly used drugs besides alcohol and tobacco (Njord, Merril, Njord, Lindsay, & Pachano, 2010). Substance abuse is closely related to adolescents, especially among adolescents with potentially risk.…”

‘If the child cannot come to the school, then the school must go to the child’: The railway station platform schools in Odisha, India

“…However, they give maximum importance to education and training for a better livelihood, and more than 50% of the children have expressed their inclination to do any kind of semi-skilled job in future (Tiwari 2007). Intelligent and diligent Tulshi, a 12-year-old girl of Bhubaneswar platform school, not only attend the school regularly but also carry a handicapped girl to school on her back who is elder than her.…”