Stories: Drug Use
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Tackling São Paulo’s Crack Cocaine Epidemic
In the centre of São Paulo, Brazil, commuters and families walk through the Cracolândia district. Here, a woman with a baby and schoolchildren pass by an addict. The area has been taken over by crack cocaine addicts since the late 1980s. Smoking crack is defacto legalised in a area nicknamed the Fluxo (on the...
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Drug Use in Tanzania
I'm waiting for the third day in a row for a character that never shows up in the “Sheraton Camp” in Temeke, Dar es Salaam. Heroin addicts like the two crossing the frame here meet at Sheraton to buy and use drugs. The box in the corner was placed by Medecins du Monde to collect used...