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“I Attempted Suicide Twice:” Songbird Pauline Gundidza Recounts Journey With Drug and Substance Addiction

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By Michael Gwarisa Drug and substance addiction is very common in the music industry, and Psychologists have identified several reasons why musicians find it easy to slide into addiction. These range from the easy accessibility of drugs since most of the time musicians play in clubs and pubs where drug peddling is rife. Fame and fortune, immaturity,

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“I Attempted Suicide Twice:” Songbird Pauline Gundidza Recounts Journey With Drug and Substance Addiction

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa Drug and substance addiction is very common in the music industry, and Psychologists have identified several reasons why musicians find it easy to slide into addiction. These range from the easy accessibility of drugs since most of the time musicians play in clubs and pubs where drug peddling is rife. Fame and

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Remembering the Zimbabwean Health Care System’s Heyday

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By Gamuchirai Masiyiwa, GPJ Zimbabwe HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Wards bustling with highly motivated health care workers, readily available medication, decent salaries, a thriving teaching hospital network — this defined Zimbabwe’s health care system in the 1980s. Back then, it was considered a model of efficiency and effectiveness in Africa. Today, however, the system is broken.

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