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Gift Msipa in Harare

Zimbabwe steps up the fight against dramatic rise in drug abuse

A drug dealer shows cocaine and marijuana packages. © JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP

Harare – Zimbabwe is in the grip of a growing crisis as substance abuse rips through communities, with young people in the eye of the storm.

"The current situation is that we have 57 percent of all mental health institutions admissions being attributed to drug use," says Wilson Box, head of the Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drug Network – an organisation working in eight of the country’s 10 provinces to raise awareness about the dangers of drug abuse.

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