By Tom Fondo
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Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person’s brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medication. Substances such as alcohol, marijuana, Cocaine and nicotine also are considered drugs. When you’re addicted, you may continue using the drug…
Only my parents can explain the painful burden of my addiction. I graduated into alcoholism, smoked bhang and lastly I found myself into deep heroin addiction. I was introduced to drugs use by partner who became my husband and together we had three children. He later died, one of my close friend also died and…
A new dawn for female drug users as Reachout Centre Trust launches ‘Beauty corner’ where the drug users will learn beauty therapy techniques. The Kenya Red Cross Society and Reachout Centre Trust funded project will equip female drug users with various beauty therapy techniques so that they also initiate their own income generating projects and…
Reachout Centre Trust congratulates all participants in the two day ‘3 on 3 Basketball tournament’ that took place on 22nd and 23rd December 2018 at the KPA Makande welfare Social hall. All the 200 youth who participated in the tournament are our heroes since they have shown the zeal and support to our noble course…
By lee Ibrah
Since 2005, Reachout Centre Trust had a good working relation with the media fraternity in highlighting drug menace not only in Coast but Kenya at large; we acknowledge the support you have accorded us all through in combating this menace. It is with the above reference that we are recognizing Journalists who have joined us…
‘’My eyes were red and burning, my malnourished body could no longer attract anyone, I was weak and enfeebled, on logical grounds my 5 years in addiction had been one hell of an ordeal.’’ Diana. ‘Have you ever woken up one morning and hate your life, looking at yourself and feeling unworthy, lowliness and…
“Too much of anything is poisonous.” Many are the times I used this phrase in composition writing back in the day without really paying too much attention to it. It was just a phrase, you know, just used so that the English teacher (it has a very humongous difference when you say English teacher) could…
We had the privilege to share our journey with our stakeholders on HIV Prevention program targeting People who use drugs through the partnership with Global fund through Kenya Red cross since 2015. The meeting brought together Probation department, Religious leaders, NACADA, Media and other civil society organization to deliberate on the same and…
Reachout centre trust director Taib Abdulrahman address Members of county assembly during the forum The County Assembly is the legislative arm of the County Government which makes laws to govern certain operations; the assembly also has oversight responsibilities on the county’s operational activities. Among the mandated bestowed upon them in the Government of…
Photo: Courtesy “Once an addict always an addict; it’s never going to change.” How many people believe this out there? It could be the addict, or the one affected by addiction in one way or the other, or someone who has never had firsthand experience in addiction (personally or through observation); but in ways…
