A man assists as a child smokes heroin. Beneath a bridge in the city young people (some minors) and adults live together. It is claimed that the adults introduce the children to drugs so that they ca...

Inmates, locked up in wooden shackles, pass their time at Pat Jasan centre. Pat Jasan is a church-based anti-drugs organisation that operates with no official authority. The massive rates of poppy gr...

Chiang Tin, 23, sits and looks outside while Shan Lay, 19, reads a book, both of them locked up in wooden shackles in a room at a Pat Jasan detention centre for drug addicts. Pat Jasan is a church-bas...

At his home in St Petersburg a drug users prepares a syringe, containing a heroin solution, for injection.

Young drug addicts, mostly ethnic Kachin, sing devotional songs while a youth volunteer plays guitar during devotion time at a Pat Jasan detention centre for drug addicts. Pat Jasan is a church-based...

Du Ka Htout Pat Jasan youth detention centre lights up as night falls. The graffiti, 'PJS', the short form of Pat Jasan, which in Kachin means "'to block and cleanse'. Pat Jasan is a church-based anti...

XDR-TB patient Nischaya, at home the Ambedkar Nagar area of Mumbai, studying for her exams. Beside her bed, her father is ordering her boxes of TB medication. Nischaya (not her real name) is 18 years...

A man holds a bunch of poppy heads, as behind him people work in of the plants, at a farm close to the city of Kandahar.

Jade miners inject heroin at a ''shooting gallery' near a mining site. Heroin is almost openly available in Hpakant with jade miners lining up for a shot which is as cheap as 2,000 Kyat (about USD 2.0...

Crime scene investigators collect evidence and remove the body of Jeffrey James Custodio, who was shot by unknown suspects in what appeared to be a drug-related execution on 5 December 2016. The polic...

Basuco, a highly addictive drug and caustic drug made from the coca paste. The farmer and producer of this one kilo batch explains that he only receives 150,000 pesos (40 GBP) for it. Although he can...

A woman selling cocaine next to the basketball court. The graffiti behind reads 'P15', the name of the local gang, but also 'La generacion perdida', the lost generation. People only moved to Potrero...

Pat Jasan youth volunteers patrol around possible locations where drug addicts regularly shoot up. Pat Jasan is a church-based anti-drugs organisation that operates with no official authority. The ma...

MSF nurse Joshi examines Nischaya, an XDR-TB patient, at the MSF clinic in Mumbai. Nischaya (not her real name) is 18 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensively drug-res...

Pacito Manas, sleeps at the wake of Christian Mufable, 34, his nephew, who was killed on 21 November during a police anti-drugs operation. It is customary that the body is not left unattended during t...

Amanda Gonzales, 72, (left) leads Jhoy Medina, 26, (right) on the 9th day of prayer following the death of her brother. The prayers are a religious custom whereby Filipinos commemorate the dead. Jhoy...

The body of Melanie Abata, killed in what appears to be a drug-related execution, lies on the side of a road surrounded by a pool of blood. The victim was found with a bag of 'shabu', the Filipino te...

The body of alleged drug dealer, Cornelio Santiago, who was killed by police in an anti-drug operation, lies in the street, where he was shot.

XDR-TB patient Hanif being weighed at the MSF clinic in Mumbai by nurse Neelu. Hanif is 25 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) patients...

Inmates, mostly detained for drug related offences in an overcrowded jail in Police Station 9.

Marcos Lins Langenbach tends to his marijuana plants that became wilted while he was away. Marcos Lins Langenbach and his wife Margarete Santos de Brito, were the first people in Brazil to be given au...

Young men drinking rum and smoking ganja after a swim in Salt River, a hot salt water spring in southern Jamaica.

Marcos Lins Langenbach tends to his marijuana plants that became wilted while he was away. Marcos Lins Langenbach and his wife Margarete Santos de Brito, were the first people in Brazil to be given au...

A man demonstrates how to prepare a 'joint' mixing cigarette tobacco and cannabis at the Labyrinth drop-in centre.

Inmates react as Myo Aung Ja (L, 20) and Breng Ja (20) try to lift a heavy weight together as part of the physical exercises they have to take part in everyday at the Du Ka Htout Pat Jasan centre. Pa...

Young drug addicts, mostly ethnic Kachin, sing devotional songs while a youth volunteer plays guitar during devotion time at a Pat Jasan detention centre for drug addicts. Pat Jasan is a church-based...

Masha combing her hair. Masha has been homeless, living in empty basements with other teenagers and sniffing glue. She now lives between her abusive boyfriend's house and a friend's mother's apartment...

Coca leaves, gasoline and other chemical containers used in the production cocaine base at an illicit, secret laboratory. The coca picking starts at 5am in the morning, and during a working day a per...

'No Drugs Zone' on a signboard at the market just outside the Yuzana Pat Jasan rehab centre. Pat Jasan is a church-based anti-drugs organisation that operates with no official authority. The massive...

An inmate stands and looks out from the balcony of the house which serves as the Pat Jasan youth detention centre for Du Ka Htout. The graffiti, 'PJS', written on the wall next to him is the short for...

Melanie Mufable leans over the cofin of her husband Christian Mufable, 34, in order to touch his face in a customary gesture of farewell before his interment at the Sangangdaan Cemetery. Mufable was k...

12-year-old Naw Seng was arrested by the Du Ka Htout Pat Jasan volunteer forces about six months ago for sniffing glue. He is still kept at the Du Ka Htout Pat Jasan centre together with other inmates...

A medical worker dispenses drugs at a mobile clinic setup in a leprosy settlement in Oko-baba.

Lory de los Santos, 37, weeps beside the coffin of Joaquin Garbo, 36, at his wake a few hours before his funeral, at Navotas Fishing Port. Joaquin was abducted and executed in what appears to be a dru...

Ma Nge, a 31 year old drug user, cries as she thinks about her two daughters while being locked up at the Yuzana Pat Jasan centre. Ma Nge is the only woman inmate and she managed to escape the next da...

Friends and family gamble and play cards to raise money for funeral costs at the wake of Anselmo Villanueva, 22, who was gunned down by four men on motorbikes in what appeared to be a drug-related exe...

A person working in an illicit secret laboratory holds a bag containing one kilo of the cocaine base manufactured there. On the floor is a toxic mixture of coca leaves, gasoline and other chemicals us...

Sai Lwin (AKA Shan Lay), 19, gets his hair cut by one of the youth volunteers at a Pat Jasan centre. Shan Lay came from the town of Moe Hnyin and has been selling heroin and other drugs in Myitkyina s...

Dee Dum, a 27 year old Kachin man sits in a room at the YCC drug rehabilitation centre holding a bible. He has just finished a 40-day heroin detox at the centre founded in 2009 by a former convict and...

A man demonstrates how to prepare a 'joint' mixing cigarette tobacco and cannabis at the Labyrinth drop-in centre.

Family and friends remain at the graveside after the interment of Ronnie Arroyo, 36, who was killed in a police anti-drug operation, at the Sangangdaan Cemetery.

Yorley Munoz Munoz, 16, carrying a sack of coca leaves that he has spent half a day picking from the steep hillsides where it is being cultivated for cocaine production. Yorley starts picking at 5am...

Young addicts wash themselves after a morning of work, part of the daily routine at the Yuzana Pat Jasan centre. As there is only a limited water supply for the inmates, not everyone has the luxury of...

16 year old Kashusha sniffing glue. She left home due to the death of her mother and her father remarrying. She now lives in the basements of Perm with the other teenagers.

Inmates do intense physical exercises as part of their everyday routine at the Du Ka Htout Pat Jasan centre. Pat Jasan is a church-based anti-drugs organisation that operates with no official authori...

A Pat Jasan youth volunteer holding a stick at the Pat Jasan detention centre for drug addicts. Pat Jasan is a church-based anti-drugs organisation that operates with no official authority. The massi...

Family, friends and neighbours attend the final evening of the wake of Arman Rejano, 28, a drug user and small-time dealer, who surrendered to the police during an amnesty in July but was killed in wh...

Zau Rein Awng (R), a 23 year old Kachin, washing dishes at a Pat Jasan centre. Awng was working in the jade mines in Hpakant where he also became addicted to heroin. He was arrested on the Valentine's...

Lory de los Santos, 37, comforts one of her children as she weeps beside the coffin of Joaquin Garbo, 36, at his wake a few hours before his funeral, at Navotas Fishing Port. Joaquin was abducted and...

A man demonstrates how to prepare a 'joint' mixing cigarette tobacco and cannabis at the Labyrinth drop-in centre.

At their home in St Petersburg a couple injecting themselves with heroin.

Children's toys, covered in blood, lie on the floor in the bedroom of Danilo Bolante, a drug user who had previously surrendered to police in an amnesty, only to be killed in what appears to be a drug...

Ma Nge, a 31 year old drug user, cries as she thinks about her two daughters while being locked up at the Yuzana Pat Jasan centre. Ma Nge is the only woman inmate and she managed to escape the next da...

Social workers Andreia Alves and Rita Lopes collect used syringes, and other waste related to drug use, and distribute new kits containing new syringes and other material to drug users in the Lumiar n...

Vitor Cezar, 26, Director of Samba music at Portela Samba School. 'I play samba and all the musicians have short hair. But I like to be different than the group. I've had my dreads since 2008. Eu so...

A nurse checking the weight of Nischaya, an XDR-TB patient, outside the MSF clinic in Mumbai. Nischaya (not her real name) is 18 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensive...

A room in which drug users are locked in wooden shackles at the Yuzana Pat Jasan centre. Pat Jasan is a church-based anti-drugs organisation that operates with no official authority. The massive rates...

Crime scene investigators collect evidence and remove the bodies of Cyril Raymundo, 29, Eduardo Aquino, 44, and Edgar Cumbis, 47, who were killed in a police anti-drug operation on 6 December 2016.

Cannanbis plants, known locally as 'creepy', drying inside a building. The area was until recently controlled by FARC guerrillas who, as part of the peace accords, are now restricted to designated cam...

In a flat in the town, PC Nagine Ahmed and PC Francesca Wheatley (right) search a small room to find 26 cannabis plants growing in two specially made tents.

A man smoking drugs in a property on Bessington Street.

Children walk behind the hearse carrying the body of Christian Camungol, 35, who was killed on 25 November 2016 along with five others in what appeared to be drug-related executions, weeps over his co...

Crime scene investigators collect evidence and recover the body of Awdul Guitlal, killed in what appears to have been a drug-related execution.

Ar Kaw (R), a 23 year old ethnic Kachin prepares to inject heroin in bushes behind the house where he lives with his mother in a village in Wine Maw. Ar Kaw, who used to be a farmer, has been addicted...

Coca-plants growing in an area where cannabis and coca are grown openly and extensively. The area was until recently controlled by FARC guerrillas who, as part of the peace accords, are now restricte...

XDR-TB patient Nischaya, at home in the Ambedkar Nagar area of Mumbai. Nischaya (not her real name) is 18 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensively drug-resistant TB (XD...

16 year old Kashusha sniffing glue. She left home due to the death of her mother and her father remarrying. She now lives in the basements of Perm with the other teenagers.

U Lun Hkawng, 43, gives a lecture to recovering drug addicts as part of the daily routine at a Pat Jasan centre. U Lun Hkawng, a father of three, has been the muscle and co-leader of the Yuzana Pat Ja...

The shackles are removed from inmates at a Pat Jasan detention centre for drug addicts. Pat Jasan is a church-based anti-drugs organisation that operates with no official authority. The massive rates...

Cannabis plants growing in an apartment in the town.

The wife and some of the six children of Alex Hongo, 31, who was killed on 25 November 2016 along with five others in what appeared to be drug-related executions, weep as the walk behind the hearse ca...

Herman (r) gets tested for HIV at the PODI Ouest. The PODIs, which are run by the RNOAC (Reseau national des organisations d'assises communautaires) group of people with HIV, offers testing, support a...

A social worker during a session with a young woman learning about drugs and their side-effects, health implications etc, at the Labyrinth drop-in centre.

Cesar Luis Cardenas Murillo, 15, smoking marijuana which they bought for 1,000 pesos (GBP 0.26). He and his two friends have their own gang and almost every day they commit robberies and thefts to pay...

Police patrol a neighbourhood during an anti-drug operation.

XDR-TB patient Nischaya, at home in the Ambedkar Nagar area of Mumbai, with her TB medication. Nischaya (not her real name) is 18 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensive...

Sasha leaves the basement where he lives with other homeless youths, sniffing glue.

A tray of drugs used to treat XDR-TB. A patient has to take about 20 pills daily for two years to complete the treatment.

Chantal Kadima, an ARV distributor, counsels a new HIV positive patient in the PODI Ouest. The PODIs, which are run by the RNOAC (Reseau national des organisations d'assises communautaires) group of p...

Some of the 30 young men who worked at a crematorium during the ebola outbreak, in August 2015 they were called on during the height of the crisis, when bodies were piling in the streets and global he...

Some of the 30 young men who worked at a crematorium during the ebola outbreak, in August 2015 they were called on during the height of the crisis, when bodies were piling in the streets and global he...

Some of the 30 young men who worked at a crematorium during the ebola outbreak, in August 2015 they were called on during the height of the crisis, when bodies were piling in the streets and global he...

Portrait of Petr Koci from the Czech Anti Drug Police Department (NPC) in his office in Prague. Mr Koci investigates cases related to Crystal Meth abuse in addition to other drug related crimes.

Some of the 30 young men who worked at a crematorium during the ebola outbreak, in August 2015 they were called on during the height of the crisis, when bodies were piling in the streets and global he...

A hilltribe woman tending to her crop of opium poppies.

A young smuggler is teased by his friends at their tented village that borders the untamed tribal areas of the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan, and is a smuggling base from which drugs, weapo...

A herder pulls a camel along a path above the village of Jangora which borders the untamed tribal areas of the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan, and is a smuggling base from which drugs, weapo...

An opium user is beaten by a patroling policeman outside the National Stadium.

Mujahideen fighters smoke hashish in the Old City of Kabul.

A young boy works in a poppy field. Opium production in Afghanistan provides more than 90 percent of the world's heroin and the revenue from opium production accounts for more than half of the country...