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Sierra Leone: 'Smoking to Survive' - How Sierra Leone's Youth Got Hooked On Kush

allAfrica.com Monday, 30 June 2025 ()
[RFI] 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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