Drug mixed with human bones ravaging Sierra Leone

Drug mixed with human bones ravaging Sierra Leone

In Sone a new drug is turning young people into zombies take a look at the youth on the street they are trapped they walk only to buy Works nothing else trust me they call it Kush dried leaves mixed with a cocktail of chemicals in just 3 years it’s taken

Over could take it to another wall andall you don’t know yourself we mixed with demonic something you see company die then still take her as the impact of Africa’s worst drug epidemic Deens disturbing reports have emerged about the newest ingredient human bones so the coffin and everything is there but they just took

The bones free town home to a million people it’s a vibrant trading Hub famous for its beaches but below the surface the city is suffering an economic crisis is pushing people into poverty at 20p a joint Kush offers a cheap but temporary Escape every day the drug consigns more lives to the dam side because of drugs I did not concentrate on music because of drugs I did not concentrate on studies because of drugs I did not concentrate on writing because of drugs I did not concentrate on anything 25-year-old Abu Bakr once

Dreamed of winning a Grammy when he took up Kush a year ago his family kicked him out now he lives at the city’s Rubbish Tip along with more than a thousand others all I’m asking Lord is for you to give me a second chance let me prove to

My family I’m not lost totally I can still be who I want to be I can still go to college I can still do music and win the Grammy Award help me God let me die empty just like my friend die empty most of the people will here a young

Man when they are not high they search the rubbish for anything that can be sold the money goes straight on their next hit I got no respect in the street no no you know no one care about me no family no friend fathers me Mothers me nobody

Want to know about me because of this cush Al haaji is 22 he got hooked after a friend gave him a joint two years ago I went to the ghetto and buy another one and smoke it you know I this is so sweet can I feel more do IED so now I’m an

Addict you know but I’m trying to quit it and I will quit it by by the grace of God this is not me this is not real me my goal was to be a doctor but this is not a doctor this is this is I don’t know this is another

Man although Kush is illegal it’s bought and sold here openly it doesn’t take long to identify the local dealer he agrees to speak to us anonymously you know your business is destroying lives destroying families destroying young people I know that but job are not available that’s why we are

Doing it so this is you you’re saying this is the only way you can earn money yeah this is the only way can you tell us the components I don’t know because don’t mix it when they come with it we buy we are the small dealer it is good

We buy it is not good will not buy Street dealers seem to know little about the product they are selling analysis has shown opot like fentel and traod doll are often mixed in but in the last few months shocking rumors have emerged about A new ingredient police suspect people are

Grinding up human bones and adding them to the mix we have come to one of the main cemeteries in fre town because we are told that local communities are forming groups to stop the grave robbers they are called friends of the Dead we are not like friends to go to

Talk to the best David Dean is the Man In Charge here just take a documentary of here he agrees to show me around we have many many destructions even this is all there is not even remains inside here we we have heard that people are digging to find human bones and making

It cush that’s what the message that I’m getting here that the baking of the graves here it’s about that it’s about what about taking bones and make cush oh this is another one see inside come here so the coffin and everything is there but they they

They just took the bones yeah W taking the bones they’re taking the bones how many graves destroyed you it’s more than thousands more than 1,000 gra yeah 2,000 despite the work of David and his friends even the dead AR safe from the Kush crisis but the question remains why

Would anyone try and get high of human bones do medication at the country’s only Mental Health Hospital Dr juu Matia has seen the recipe change over time you know it’s an everchanging phenomenon one time you hear they have added formaline before you know they have added something else but the recent

Uh substance that has been added now is the human B I’m trying to understand why would they go that far to dig Graves and use human bones but what we know is that human bones contains a lot of sulfur and sulfur has the the potential of giving that feeling of high especially when

Taking in at high concentration and when inhaled because it goes directly to the brain 85% % of patients here are Kush users Dr juu Fears the epidemic could destabilize the entire country it’s a big crisis given the fact that uh the youthful population that should be vibrant should be working or maybe going

To universities to plan for the future are the ones that are been targeted with the cush you go around the town or along streets you see a lot of young men who are supposed to be active sleeping on the streets we are supposed to have doctors we are supposed to have

Engineers but these are the people that are now suffering from addiction and they cannot do anything for those on the streets there are few safety nets for help widows offer people with disability with the church so many lives there then we s and see kadu runs a food distribution on the outskirts of

Town tensions often Run High Min and this drugs if the next 10 years Believe get you everybody wipe off so many family don’t scatter because of these drugs DRS no par en drugs kadu is looking after a 6- week old baby his mother is leaving in the Charities rehab center born a Kush addict he’s suffering from

Withdrawal tormentum even right now don’t eator bet better and making the behav too so we get Emmanuel God With Us like many children Emmanuel’s life has already been shaped by kush for his mother he’s now the ultimate motivation to get clean her name is haaru it’s the first time in two weeks

She’s seeing her baby she became an addict after family breakdown left her homeless for the first time in years she’s hopeful for the future I get for try for sit back was so I go go continue my study because I want for be a lawyer from small as she continues her recovery

Haaru has decided to leave Emmanuel in the care of the charity bu bu Village and I want to make you get a better life life be like me children here are faced with two realities daily life with all its hardships or the deadly illusion which Kush provides the path they choose will

Determine s Leon’s future

It’s so addictive, users become hooked after a single hit, then find themselves quickly trapped in a cycle of self-destruction.

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Kush is a mysterious new zombie drug that’s ravaging Sierra Leone – an epidemic described as the worst in Africa. And amid fears the crisis could destabilise the entire nation – a shocking new twist: the use of ground-up human bones as one of the drug’s cocktail of ingredients.

A warning, this report contains some distressing images.

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