Sierra Leone drug abuse: Rampant use of illicit ‘kush’ destroying young lives

A new drug that appeared around 5 years ago is wreaking havoc among young people in Sierra Leone: Kush, a mixture of chemicals that mimics cannabis. In this West African country, one of the poorest in the world, you only need 23 euro cents to treat yourself to an hour-long trance. Faced with the scale of the phenomenon and the lack of structures to respond to the crisis, health professionals are alarmed. FRANCE 24’s Camille Nedelec tells us more.

Source: France24.com

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