🌍 Africa 6d ago · Dianne Kypri

Here’s how to make drug addiction a health issue, not a criminal one

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Here’s how to make drug addiction a health issue, not a criminal one
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It’s still early when Bridget Munnik walks to work. The streets of Westbury in Johannesburg are eerily quiet. 



“If it’s daylight, then it’s their time to sleep. For us it’s day and for them it’s night.” When the darkness falls, drug users come out to roam the neighbourhood in the west of Johannesburg, she says. “They’re running around like mad people in the community.”



Auntie Brie, as she’s known by those who come to the skills development programme she runs in the neighbourhood

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