Foot dragging as junkies are 'drugged' to graves
His face was anxious and driven by an impressible urge for "the thing", John Karisa, 24, lifts the syringe loaded with a whittish liquid to his right biceps. For a few seconds, a grimace creases his face as he pokes his skin with a needke, rendered blunt by overuse.
John is te face of a tragedythat is unfolding in Mombasa and other coastal haves.
Finally his spike finds its mark and starts to channel the syringe's contents into his bloodstream. The grimace slowly melts, turning into a broad smile as an extraordinary calm sweeps over him.
He leans back, the needle still stuck in his arm, and savours the momentary sense of being "high", in the drug user's lingo, before reaching over to pluck it out.
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