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'Shabu is everywhere': One man's struggle to break free from Ice
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For Mr Kuswanto, who used Ice, or shabu as it is known locally, for years, the breaking point came when he sold his children's mobile phones in December to repay his mounting drug debt. He checked himself into the Rumah Singgah Peka clinic in late February, with $14 to his name.
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BOGOR • In late February, Mr Kuswanto travelled 550km from his home in Kudus, Central Java to Bogor, arriving at the Rumah Singgah Peka clinic with a total of 150,000 rupiah (S$14) to his name and a nine-year Ice habit to break.
For Mr Kuswanto, Ice, or shabu as it is called here, initially made it easier to live with the horrific scarring at the base of his throat and chest, sustained from police torture when he was wrongfully accused of stealing from an ice cream shop.
