In her quest for academic brilliance and excellence, a 16-year old Junior High School pupil in Accra found herself hooked on marijuana, popularly known as wee, which she smoked for weeks.
Her addiction forced her to join a gang and eventually, the drug affected her psyche as she started behaving abnormally, which was suspected to be schizophrenia.
She told TV3 that she was introduced to wee by her friends one day when they out playing.
“I involved myself in a drug abuse. We were once playing together and one of them went and bought it and said we should all smoke together,” she said
Her aunty, Christian Sevodzi, said it was people in their neighbourhood who brought their attention to the girl’s smoking habit. She said they realized she was occasionally delusional; something that prompted them to seek treatment for her at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
“People complained to me that the child had started smoking wee and that she has been behaving abnormally. She hears voices in her mind that she should run away, which she obeys so we called a doctor at Korle-Bu who asked us to bring her,” the aunty told TV3
Today, the girl has recovered from the mental disorder thanks to the treatment she received from the doctors at the Psychiatry Department of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, and now says “I feel okay” to be well again.
source: tv3network
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