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Photo Essay - Central Asia Drug Trade



Heroin Addict


Heroin Addict

Russia has Europe's highest number of heroin addicts -- 1.8 percent of the population, according to UNDCP. Here, a man injects heroin in an apartment in Moscow, where prices for a kilo of heroin can run up to $30,000. Moscow only emerged as a major market for Afghan-origin heroin in the early 1990s, a period of overwhelming social and economic upheaval for Russia.



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Photo: Ratkova Olga/ Itar-Tass
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