This mixture is locally referred to as ‘tie’, made up of the reddish-brown, heavily scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy plant illicitly as a narcotic substance.
According to the psychiatrist, the youth consume the substance to make them high and that it is more dangerous than the effect of tramadol, another drug, which has been recently abused by the youth and can easily cause mental illness.
He revealed further that his outfit has been recording frequent cases of patients being rushed there after confessing to taking ‘tie’.
He noted that despite having frequent cases of such abuse of drug by the youth, there is no statistics yet to give accurate figures of the cases.
Dr. Omuojine said the mental facility at KATH had been flooded with cases in which patients confessed to taking ‘tie’ because the intake of marijuana on tramadol was not enough to get them ‘high’.
The Ghanaian Times for its part, says the Ghana Immigration Service has arrested two Chinese nationals, Wang Kun and Wei Yiyi for illegal lumbering at Have in the Volta Region of Ghana.
They were arrested with a Chainsaw machine, a generator, two solar panels, solar connector and a heavy duty scale.