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Some 30 people trying to beat addiction to drugs like cocaine, marijuana, alcohol and heroin - locally known as "brown-brown" - are on a waiting list for 'City of Rest', Sierra Leone's only residential drug rehabilitation centre, in the capital, Freetown.

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"It's terrible, and the need [for drug abuse intervention] has increased so much. Parents come with their children and we have to refuse them for lack of space," said the centre's director, Pastor Morie S. Ngobeh.

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