'Kush' is making terrible inroads among the young in Sierra Leone, a West African nation ranked among the world's poorest.
Recovering kush addicts in a dormitory at the Kissy Mental Hospital in Freetown."Kush" offers them relief -- but the nirvana is fleeting and carries a grim price.
Nearby, Mohamed's companions were crammed into a shack shrouded in kush smoke, in the heart of a slum where children played among pigs and detritus.Manufactured and distributed by criminal gangs,"the drug is an amalgamation of the various chemicals and plants that mimic the natural THC found in cannabis," said Abdul Sheku Kargbo, head of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Kush users seem to be everywhere in Freetown, from the slums to well-heeled areas, sitting slumped with their heads lolling and sometimes sleeping standing up.Kush comprises a joint made of plants laced with synthetic chemicals mimicking the natural cannabinoids in marijuana"Sometimes when I wake up from sleep without smoking, my body and joints ache," she said.
Koroma walked through the poor district of Crab Town, paying an outreach visit to a"hideout" where maybe a hundred kush users were inside, discreetly smoking joints."We don't want to discriminate them or to point fingers at them, that’s stigmatisation.- One hospital - Care amounts to isolation treatment lasting between three to six weeks supported by anti-psychotic drugs to help wean patients off their addiction.
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