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West Africa Plans to Fight New Synthetic Drug Epidemic
‘Kush’ entered the drug market in Freetown around 2016 and quickly spread across the country. The drug, taken mostly by men aged 18 to 25, often causes people to fall asleep while walking, fall over, and bang their heads against hard surfaces, which can …