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How heroin addiction robbed me of my youth

What began as a contest on who could swallow the most ‘illicit’ tablets meant to treat mental illnesses got David Mbugua hooked to the drugs.

This set off experimentation with substances that could leave him with a light head after his peers ushered him into the world of drugs at the turn of his sixteenth birthday.

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