Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has declared a national emergency on substance abuse following calls on his government to crack down on the rising use of a cheap and sometimes deadly ...

They’re boning up to get high. Addicts digging up human bones as part of a recipe to make the drug kush has become a national emergency in Sierra Leone and is slowly moving to other West African ...

Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia are grappling with an increasing number of young people becoming addicted to a substance known as kush or K2. Abuse of the drug has already killed several people in ...

SIERRA Leone has declared a national emergency as addicts dig up graves to get high on a “zombie drug” made from bones. Cops are now forced to guard the cemeteries of capital Freetown, as the country ...

It's barely 9 a.m. but the cramped alleyways of Kaduna in the western end of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, are already packed with young men. They sit hunched over on low wooden benches, their ...

Feb 25 (Reuters) - New testing of a cheap and deadly drug that has triggered a national emergency in Sierra Leone reveals it is composed of synthetic opioids and cannabinoids imported from abroad, ...