Mount Barclay, July 24 -- Inside a fenced compound lined with barbed wire Jakuba Kamara sits quietly among dozens of recovering youths once gripped by drug addiction. After six months at this rehabilitation center Kamara reflects on the harrowing life he left behind.

The 42-year-old remembers the stench of the dumpsite where he lived in Zono Town on Bushrod Island - packed with more than a hundred users, many of them barely clinging to life, with no appetite for food, but thirsty for drugs every hour.

Kamara says he saw many friends die -sometimes as many as seven a week. "We'd put them in bags and throw them in the river," he says.

Kamara says he has been sober for six months. He is learning to drive a tractor and bake bread here at t...