Police officers are being ordered to guard graveyards.
A man sleeps whilst standing inside a drug den at the Kington landfill site in Freetown A psychoactive drug made from human bones is leaving addicts digging up graves in order to get their fix. Police officers are guarding cemeteries in Freetown, Sierra Leone, after more people are turning to the drug Kush. It is made from a variety of toxic substances, with one of its main ingredients is ground-up human bone.
’ Caption: A man sleeps inside a drug den at the Kington landfill site Kush is a mix of various chemicals and plants that mimic the natural properties found in cannabis One doctor from Freetown told the BBC he had seen hundreds of young men killed by organ failure caused by the drug. Between 2020 and 2023, admissions to the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Hospital with illnesses linked to Kush rose by 4,000%.
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