Liberia’s kush crisis: The hidden trade behind a generation at risk
- Monrovia, Liberia – On the streets of Liberia’s capital, the signs of the kush crisis are increasingly hard to miss.
- Young people gather in neighbourhoods where families say addiction has pulled children away from school, their homes and their communities.
- Kush, a cheap and highly addictive synthetic street drug, has spread across parts of West Africa and become one of Liberia’s most urgent public concerns.
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- Monrovia, Liberia – On the streets of Liberia’s capital, the signs of the kush crisis are increasingly hard to miss.
- Young people gather in neighbourhoods where families say addiction has pulled children away from school, their homes and their communities.
- Kush, a cheap and highly addictive synthetic street drug, has spread across parts of West Africa and become one of Liberia’s most urgent public concerns.
Sources: Al Jazeera