{"id":1883,"date":"2024-07-22T02:37:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T02:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/kush-into-the-mad-world-bbc-africa-eye-documentary\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T02:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T02:37:14","slug":"kush-into-the-mad-world-bbc-africa-eye-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/kush-into-the-mad-world-bbc-africa-eye-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kush: Into the Mad World &#8211; BBC Africa Eye documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u6MPV9zBXYg?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>(TW: Themes of self-harm and suicide)<\/p>\n<p>Kush &#8211; a cheap, new illegal drug high is taking the youth of Sierra Leone to a dark place. Young people driven mad. Young people killing themselves. Young people harming themselves and others. Psychiatric wards are filling up with Kush cases and police are battling to win the war against the drug.<\/p>\n<p>With Kush use spreading like wildfire and with ever-younger users being exposed to it, Africa Eye reporter, Tyson Conteh, investigates the drug and asks whether Sierra Leone can stop the march of this dangerously addictive high.<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nAfrica Eye brings you original, investigative journalism revealing secrets and rooting out injustice in the world\u2019s most complex and exciting continent. Nothing stays hidden forever.<br \/>\nYou can check out all #BBCAfricaEye investigations here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/bbcafricaeye<\/p>\n<p>Credit list:<\/p>\n<p>Reported and Directed by Tyson Conteh<br \/>\nProducer &#8211; Sam Liebmann<br \/>\nExecutive Producers &#8211; Emma Whitlock, Andy Bell<br \/>\nCamera- Chernor Mustapha Thoronka<br \/>\nFilm Editor &#8211; Tom Bober<br \/>\nSound &#8211; Santigie Kargbo<br \/>\nField Producer &#8211; Karim Kargbo<br \/>\nFixer &#8211; Franklin T.O M&#8217;cormack<br \/>\nTranslators &#8211; Gibrilla S Conteh, Margaret Deen Kamara, Finda Mories Koroma, Victor Strasser<br \/>\nOnline Editor &#8211; Chris Stott<br \/>\nDubbing Mixer &#8211; Jez Spencer<br \/>\nColour Grader &#8211; Boyd Nagle<br \/>\nReversioning Producer &#8211; Anna Payton<br \/>\nDigital Producer &#8211; Baya Cat<br \/>\nImpact Producer &#8211; Courtney Bembridge<br \/>\nSocial Media Producer &#8211; Anusha Kumar<br \/>\nProduction Coordinators &#8211; Max Murrain, Sarah Clarke<br \/>\nProduction Manager &#8211; Simon Frost<br \/>\nAfrica Eye Editor &#8211; Tom Watson <\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nSubscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u6MPV9zBXYg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TW: Themes of self-harm and suicide) Kush &#8211; a cheap, new illegal drug high is taking the youth of Sierra Leone to a dark place. Young people driven mad. Young people killing themselves. Young people harming themselves and others. Psychiatric wards are filling up with Kush cases and police are battling to win the war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934168192,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1478,434,1321,1318,15,1317,1320,1319,369,1323,169,1472,1473,772,21,1483,1475,1486,1477,1470,1481,1479,1482,1485,1476,1480,1484,1471,1474],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-addiction","tag-africa","tag-africa-eye","tag-africa-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-africa","tag-bbc-africa-eye","tag-bbc-africa-news","tag-bbc-documentary","tag-bbc-investigation","tag-bbc-news","tag-cannabinoids","tag-cannabis","tag-documentaries","tag-documentary","tag-drug-recovery","tag-fake-weed","tag-freetown","tag-k2","tag-kush","tag-narcotics","tag-psychosis","tag-recovery","tag-sierra-leone","tag-spice","tag-street-drug","tag-substance-abuse","tag-synthetic-marijuana","tag-weed","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934168192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}