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Social media is buzzing with a new drug, for which human beings are doing a bizzare job. The incident has gained global attention for all wrong reasons.
In Sierra Leone, a national emergency has been declared over the rampant use of a drug called Kush and one of the main ingredients of the drug is human bones, for which several people in Sierra Leone are digging up skeletons from graves.
“Groups of mostly young men sitting on street corners with limbs swollen by kush abuse is a common sight in Sierra Leone,” BBC reports. Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio has called the drug a “death trap” and said it posed an “existential crisis”.
Kush is made from herbs, cannabis, and disinfectants. The popularity of this drug has surged in recent times due to its euphoric effects. However, this became a menace when it was found that adding human bones to this concoction made it even more effective, which might be because of the sulphur content in human bones. Due to this suppliers and dealers have started digging graves and exhuming bones from graveyards to make the drug.
As a result of this drug many lives have been lost and many of the users are landing up in hospital.
As per reports, between 2020 and 2023 hospital admissions due to kush surged by almost 4,000%.
“Psychologically, there is this is dependence- where the patient becomes dependent on the substance such that they cannot do anything without using the Kush. First thing in the morning they have to make sure they refill with the Kush and then later on as the day goes by, they continue the use,” Dr Jusu Mattia, the acting medical superintendent, Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital told Africa News.
“Now that government has now put state of emergency on Kush, we should use the other apparatus or the setup stage that was done for COVID and Ebola for us to use those structures- community structures, health structures, and psychosocial structures. And the community empowerment structures,” Habib Taigore Kamara, the executive director of Social Linkages for Youth Development and Child Link told the media.
In Sierra Leone, a national emergency has been declared over the rampant use of a drug called Kush and one of the main ingredients of the drug is human bones, for which several people in Sierra Leone are digging up skeletons from graves.
“Groups of mostly young men sitting on street corners with limbs swollen by kush abuse is a common sight in Sierra Leone,” BBC reports. Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio has called the drug a “death trap” and said it posed an “existential crisis”.
Kush is made from herbs, cannabis, and disinfectants. The popularity of this drug has surged in recent times due to its euphoric effects. However, this became a menace when it was found that adding human bones to this concoction made it even more effective, which might be because of the sulphur content in human bones. Due to this suppliers and dealers have started digging graves and exhuming bones from graveyards to make the drug.
As a result of this drug many lives have been lost and many of the users are landing up in hospital.
As per reports, between 2020 and 2023 hospital admissions due to kush surged by almost 4,000%.
“Psychologically, there is this is dependence- where the patient becomes dependent on the substance such that they cannot do anything without using the Kush. First thing in the morning they have to make sure they refill with the Kush and then later on as the day goes by, they continue the use,” Dr Jusu Mattia, the acting medical superintendent, Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital told Africa News.
“Now that government has now put state of emergency on Kush, we should use the other apparatus or the setup stage that was done for COVID and Ebola for us to use those structures- community structures, health structures, and psychosocial structures. And the community empowerment structures,” Habib Taigore Kamara, the executive director of Social Linkages for Youth Development and Child Link told the media.
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