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Drink-at-home parents turning their children into alcohol abusers

In an open parking lot at a residential area of Roysambu on Thika road, booming music emanates from the parked vehicles.

Occasionally, the sound of a bottle falling on the ground or wild screaming shows the intoxicated state of the people in the cars. It is the new normal since Covid-19 shut the doors to bars, but opened up innovative ways in which people, especially the youth, continue with their overindulgence in alcohol.

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