Zimbabwe battles youth drug abuse

An intricate web of powerful individuals, corrupt police operatives and lowly vendors had been bringing drugs to users on the streets, in particular Zimbabwean teenagers and young adults, causing Zimbabwe to be riddled with drugs in recent months.

It is a vice common among youths from the ghetto, Zimbabwe's poor and crime-ridden suburbs.

In the country's latest nationwide anti-drug blitz, more than 2,000 people have been nabbed, the police department said.