Saturday 15 September 2012

Rio Shantytown Struggles to Deal With Crack Cocaine

Police-escorted social workers were greeted by sporadic gunfire as they drove into northern Rio's Jacarezinho shantytown. The latter is home to a large population of crack cocaine addicts. With one million users, Brazil is the world's largest market for crack, a highly addictive cocaine derivative which is wreaking havoc in impoverished slums, according to a study by the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP). Under a bridge, a group of Jacarezinho ...

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