The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has disclosed that more than 6,000 applicants who failed mandatory drug screening during this year’s recruitment into Ghana’s security services tested positive for five major illicit substances. Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Thursday, 30 July, NACOC’s Deputy Director-General, Alexander Twum-Barimah, said the affected applicants tested positive for cocaine, heroin, cannabis, opioids and methamphetamine. According to him, the results showed that the failed applicants were not limited to a single prohibited substance. Mr Twum-Barimah identified the substances as:“One, cocaine; two, heroin; three, cannabis; four, opioids; and meth. Earlier this year, NACOC announced that over 6,000 of more than 100,000 applicants screened for recruitment into the security services failed the country’s first mandatory drug screening exercise.