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Table 1 Priority substances identified in the free listing interviews

From: Alcohol and other drug use patterns and services in an integrated refugee settlement in Northern Zambia: a formative research study

Priority Substance Type

Other Names

Type of Substance

Alcohol By Volume (%)

Composite Salience

Substance Description

Lutuku

Kachasu,

Kanyanga, Kanchina

Alcohol

48

0.639

Locally distilled watery brew packaged in drums.

Ibange

Cannabis

Cannabis

N/A

0.326

It is green and leafy and takes the shape of Cassava leaves that are smoked.

Eagle

 

Alcohol

5.5

0.083

Bottled lager beer packaged in brown bottles. Not locally brewed.

Valium

Infinini,

Droga, Droug

Anxiolytic, Sedative

N/A

0.069

Tablets. One respondent said that it is often mixed with alcohol

Katata

 

Alcohol

3.5

0.056

Locally brewed using maize and millet.

Cinq ‘Cents

 

Alcohol

89

0.049

Distilled alcohol from Lutuku, made from the remains of Lutuku water. One small bottle can get two people drunk according to one respondent.