Is Your Child Taking This Drug?

Kampala, Oct 11, 2008 (New Vision/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A highly addictive, intoxicating drug is being openly sold in Ugandan shops and supermarkets. The drug, sold under the brand name 'Kuber', is disguised as a mouth freshener and packed in sachets similar to tea leaves pouches. The nicotine-rich stimulant is being widely consumed by secondary school students and taxi drivers to get high. "If you put it into hot water and take it like tea, you get very drunk," a 16-year-old studentcurrently admitted to Butabika Hospital for abusing drugs including kuber, reveals. Kikonyogo Kivumbi, a teacher in Nansana, recently wrote to the New Vision letter section saying: "I have seen many children chew kuber. Children get extremely high on this drug but are undetected by teachers because it has no smell." Dr. David... [read full story]