Jackie Chandiru
From around 2015, female dancehall musician Jackie Chandiru, formerly of the Blu-3 trio, went musically silent. Many thought Ms Chandiru, much like her musical peers, was simply battling a dry music spell.
Her disappearance was, however, down to drug addiction. Unlike many artistes and other substance abusers who use illegal narcotics like cocaine and heroin, Chandiru was addicted to a prescription opioid—pethidine. She would administer it by injection.
“Due to the strength of the drug, I always felt twice as energetic and with zero pain whenever I used it. And because of this, I started relying on the drug even for the slightest of body pains,” Ms Chandiru, who was prescribed the synthetic opioid to address a chronic back problem, said. “Eventually, I was held hostage by the drug.’’
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