Psychoactive drug made from HUMAN BONES that has seen addicts digging up GRAVES ... trends now
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Sierra Leone has declared a national emergency over a psychoactive drug made from human bones.
The country has witnessed a sharp spike in abuse of the drug, kush, forcing police officers to guard cemeteries in the capital of Freetown, to stop young men from digging up skeletons to get high.
Kush is a drug made from a variety of substances, including toxic chemicals, herbs, cannabis, disinfenctant but one of its main ingredients is ground-up human bone, as they contain traces of sulphur, which allegedly can enhance the drugs effect.
In a nationwide broadcast yesterday, Sierra Leone's President Bio said: 'Our country is currently faced with an existential threat due to the ravaging impact of drugs and substance abuse, particularly the devastating synthetic drug kush.'
In a nationwide broadcast yesterday, Sierra Leone's President Bio said: 'Our country is currently faced with an existential threat due to the ravaging impact of drugs and substance abuse, particularly the devastating synthetic drug kush'. President Bio pictured in 2018
Although it's difficult to pinpoint the number of people affected, Sierra Leone's sole psychiatric hospital, a renovated facility from the British colonial era, is swamped with young addicts brought in by families desperate for help
Pictured: A man sleeps inside a drug den at the Kington landfill site in Freetown, in July 2023
Pictured: A woman sleeping while sat down in a Kush drug den in Freetown, in July 2023
Although there is no official death toll linked to kush
