Sierra Leone declares emergency over drug kush - made from human bones
Sierra Leone declares emergency over drug kush - made from human bones
Psychoactive drug kush has prompted a wave of deaths, mental health issues and the digging up of graves.
Sierra Leone's president has declared a national emergency over rampant drug abuse.
Kush, a psychoactive blend of addictive substances, has been prevalent in the country for years.
President Julius Maada Bio called the drug a "death trap" and said it posed an "existential crisis".
One of the drug's many ingredients is human bones - security has been tightened in cemeteries to stop addicts digging up skeletons from graves.
Groups of mostly young men sitting on street corners with limbs swollen by kush abuse is a common sight in Sierra Leone.
Kush in Sierra Leone is quite different; it is a mixture of cannabis, fentanyl, tramadol, formaldehyde and – according to some – ground down humans bones.
Holy shit.
The formaldehyde gives it that extra bang you can only get from embalming fluid. If they didn't cut it with human bone it might be too potent /s
Yeah.. that’s insane. I recently had surgery and was administered a small dose of fentanyl via IV while being held in post-op, I was also prescribed tramadol for pain management afterwards. Both drugs turned me into a zombie on their own. I can’t imagine mixing both, and also layering on weed, as a recreational substance.
If there are both, you won't feel the tramadol. When the ratio is high enough, it will make it suck less when the Fentanyl wears off and give it longer action though. It's kind of like saying they smoked meth with cocaine sprinkled on top. The meth is doing the heavy lifting.
Good. Advocates have been sounding the warning for a long time now.
With or without the alleged "human bones" that stuff is a scourge.
One of the drug's main ingredients is human bones
Do you want prions? Because that's how you get prions.
Not much danger there, actually. Prions are primarily gained from eating the central nervous system.
At least for existing known infections. No reason it couldn't happen to another protein and cause something like muscular dystrophy.
That's how you get a fancy new prion disease...