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The death dungeon

Drugs abuse is rampant among the youth and is threatening to wipe out a generation. The dangers are real and Pulse has partnered with Youth Against Drugs to fight the menace countrywide, writes STEVENS MUENDO

They were in a deplored state as they restlessly writhed from their hospital beds, some tearing their clothes apart. Their trembling dry lips kept their mouth an open jar as their blood shot eyes protruded off their lids like apple balls. Gazing at nothing in particular. Like aliens from a lost world, they strain to make sense of a world they once lived in normalcy.

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