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‘Smoking to survive’: How Sierra Leone’s youth got hooked on kush
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‘Smoking to survive’: How Sierra Leone’s youth got hooked on kush
A cheap synthetic drug known as kush is ravaging West Africa and its epicentre is Sierra Leone. The government has declared kush a public health emergency, but poverty and trauma are slowing efforts by communities to help unhook young people from its sometimes deadly hold.
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It's a morning like so many others in Bo, Sierra Leone's second-largest city. About 50 young people, mostly boys, are gathered in a military hangar. They are about to start a four-week detoxification cure. All are using kush or zombie drugs, a devastating synthetic drug that is proliferating in the country. The Minister of Social Affairs, Melrose Karminty, is present for this opening. She speaks of "epidemic".
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