Escaping kush addiction hell in Sierra Leone


Freetown (AFP) – Chained in a traditional healing hut or getting treatment at Sierra Leone’s first government-run rehab centre, addicts of the synthetic cannabis-based opioid kush seek to escape its hold. For those in recovery like Mariama Turay, it’s a chance at a normal life. “I have my daughter back,” says her father Ibrahim, after his daughter returned home from seven weeks of therapeutic treatment.

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