Inside Uganda’s new drug crisis
Published on: Friday 07 April 2023
The face of opioid-related overdoses in Uganda wears a white lab coat and has a stethoscope hugging their neck, an investigation by Monitor can reveal.Five of 15 people who, on average, check into Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital’s alcohol and drug unit each month, grapple with some form of opioid addiction.An opioid is a compound whose addictive properties or physiological effects resemble those of opium.Opioids—medically called...
