A Medair funded volunteer, Zahara, who provides a first line in dispensing drugs in her village, with two children she has treated and as a result almost certainly saved their lives. Dhieu (2) (L), wh...

Members of a village self-defence force (Koglweogo or bush guardians) in the village of Poessin near Ouagadougou display bags of seized contraband marijuana. Once considered 'safe', Burkina Faso (mea...

Aya (16 months) has a progressive degenerative condition that is slowly paralysing her. Her parents have to buy the drugs that treat her on the black market and the hospital is not able to afford the...

Aya (16 months) has a progressive degenerative condition that is slowly paralysing her. Her parents have to buy the drugs that treat her on the black market and the hospital is not able to afford the...

Matteo Rodrigues (35) after smoking crack cocaine in a crack den in the neighbourhood of Ponta De Agua, Praia. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the s...

Nathaniel Tavares (31) exhales while smoking crack cocaine in a crack den in the neighbourhood of Ponta De Agua, Praia. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname...

Matteo Rodrigues (35) smoking crack cocaine in a crack den in the neighbourhood of Ponta De Agua, Praia. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggli...

Aya (16 months) has a progressive degenerative condition that is slowly paralysing her. Her parents have to buy the drugs that treat her on the black market and the hospital is not able to afford the...

Matteo Rodrigues (35) smoking crack cocaine in a crack den in the neighbourhood of Ponta De Agua, Praia. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggli...

A rock of crack cocaine on a home-made pipe, about to be smoked, in a crack den in the neighbourhood of Ponta De Agua, Praia. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nic...

Police officers involved in the raid on the freighter Eser look at the docked ship. In February 2019, police on the island made the world's biggest-ever seizure of Europe-bound cocaine, when they foun...

The freighter Eser, onboard which, in February 2019, police on the island made the world's biggest-ever seizure of Europe-bound cocaine, when they found nearly ten tonnes of cocaine on the vessel. Th...

Edimondo Junior (24), an ex-cocaine user at the Tendas el Shaddai drug rehabilitation centre with Honorio Da Costa Fragata (71), the rehab's director. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'H...

Edimondo Junior (24), an ex-cocaine user at the Tendas el Shaddai drug rehabilitation centre. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggling route at...

Nathaniel Tavares (31), suffering from withdrawal symptoms as he waits for crack in a crack den in the neighbourhood of Ponta De Agua, Praia. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10...

Nathaniel Tavares (31), suffering from withdrawal symptoms as he waits for crack in a crack den in the neighbourhood of Ponta De Agua, Praia. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10...

Celestino Lobo (46), an ex-crack user at a government drug therapy clinic. One of his hands is just a stump, the result of a savage torture session inflicted on him by a homeowner he burgled. "He and...

One of the numerous 'favelas' in Praia, capital of Cape Verde, where crack cociane is freely available. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smugglin...

Matteo Rodrigues (35) after smoking crack in a crack den. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggling route at 10 degrees north which provides the...

A police officer involved in the raid on the freighter Eser standing on an armed vessel. In February 2019, police on the island made the world's biggest-ever seizure of Europe-bound cocaine, when they...

Duner Gonsalves (23), an ex-drug user lifts weights at the Tendas el Shaddai drug rehabilitation centre in Santa Cruz. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname f...

Natalino Brito (37), an ex-drug user lifts weights at the Tendas el Shaddai drug rehabilitation centre in Santa Cruz. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname fo...

A boy stands on a hillside in Assomada, a town in Santa Catarina, an impoverished farming county an hour's drive through jagged mountains from Praia. Once, the region's main income was from beans, cor...

Houses in the remote mountains in Santa Catarina, an impoverished farming county an hour's drive through jagged mountains from Praia. Once, the region's main income was from beans, corn and livestock....

A scarecrow on a hillside in Santa Catarina, an impoverished farming county an hour's drive through jagged mountains from Praia. Once, the region's main income was from beans, corn and livestock. Toda...

An apartment block, beside the state TV building, where police found 1.5 tonnes of cocaine in the basement. In the two year investigation that followed, tens of millions of dollars worth of property w...

An apartment building where cocaine was found during a police raid. The building is home to the Armed Forces General Staff. In the two year investigation that followed, tens of millions of dollars wor...

Local rapper Ga Da Lomba (35). After moving to America in his late teens, where he says he fell in with a bad crowd, he returned home and spent the next 15 years hooked on cocaine, robbing to feed his...

Cape Verde prison where cocaine smugglers are held. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggling route at 10 degrees north which provides the short...

Local rapper Ga Da Lomba (35). After moving to America in his late teens, where he says he fell in with a bad crowd, he returned home and spent the next 15 years hooked on cocaine, robbing to feed his...

Local rapper Ga Da Lomba (35). After moving to America in his late teens, where he says he fell in with a bad crowd, he returned home and spent the next 15 years hooked on cocaine, robbing to feed his...

Matteo Rodrigues (35, standing) and Nathaniel Tavares (31), after smoking crack cocaine in a crack den in the neighbourhood of Ponta De Agua, Praia. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Hig...

Cape Verde prison where cocaine smugglers are held. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggling route at 10 degrees north which provides the short...

One of the police officers involved in the raid on the freighter Eser where nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine were found, looks at the Abiete, a Brazilian fishing vessel caught smuggling two tonnes of cocai...

A rock of crack being prepared for smoking in a crack den in the neighbourhood of Ponta De Agua, Praia. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smugglin...

Cape Verde prison where cocaine smugglers are held. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggling route at 10 degrees north which provides the short...

Celestino Lobo (46), an ex-crack user at a government drug therapy clinic. One of his hands is just a stump, the result of a savage torture session inflicted on him by a homeowner he burgled. "He and...

Police officers involved in the raid on the freighter Eser stand on an armed vessel. In February 2019, police on the island made the world's biggest-ever seizure of Europe-bound cocaine, when they fou...

Two boats caught carrying a quarter tonne of cocaine between them. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggling route at 10 degrees north which pro...

One of the police officers involved in the raid on the freighter Eser looks at two smaller boats that, in another police operation, were found to be smuggling a quarter tonne of cocaine between them....

Two of the police officers involved in the raid on the freighter Eser. In February 2019, police on the island made the world's biggest-ever seizure of Europe-bound cocaine, when they found nearly ten...

One of the police officers involved in the raid on the freighter Eser. In February 2019, police on the island made the world's biggest-ever seizure of Europe-bound cocaine, when they found nearly ten...

One of the police officers involved in the raid on the freighter Eser. In February 2019, police on the island made the world's biggest-ever seizure of Europe-bound cocaine, when they found nearly ten...

One of the police officers involved in the raid on the freighter Eser. In February 2019, police on the island made the world's biggest-ever seizure of Europe-bound cocaine, when they found nearly ten...

The Abiete, a Brazilian fishing vessel caught smuggling two tonnes of cocaine in August 2019. The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggling route at...

Celestino Lobo (46), an ex-crack user at a government drug therapy clinic. One of his hands is just a stump, the result of a savage torture session inflicted on him by a homeowner he burgled. "He and...

Local rapper Ga Da Lomba (35). After moving to America in his late teens, where he says he fell in with a bad crowd, he returned home and spent the next 15 years hooked on cocaine, robbing to feed his...

Farmers growing opium poppies prune the young plants. They are taking advantage of the oportunity to grow poppy as it is currently tolerated by the Taliban. For the same area that growing wheat would...

A mural of drugs, alcohopl and cigarettes outside an addiction clinic with the text: 'Say no to drugs'.

A mural of a poppy outside an addiction clinic with the text: 'Drugs out of Afghanistan'.

The Modern Slavery Team look for a way into an address linked to cannabis production during a raid in Northamptonshire.

A man has his hair cut on arrival at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five year...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in recovery at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five years crystal m...

Drug users in the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are mostlly smoked. Typically a portion of crystal meth is cheap, around 0.5 USD. Many of the users ar...

Drug users in the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are mostlly smoked. Typically a portion of crystal meth is cheap, around 0.5 USD. Many of the users ar...

Drug users in the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are mostlly smoked. Typically a portion of crystal meth is cheap, around 0.5 USD. Many of the users ar...

Drug users in the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are mostlly smoked. Typically a portion of crystal meth is cheap, around 0.5 USD. Many of the users ar...

Drug users in the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are mostlly smoked. Typically a portion of crystal meth is cheap, around 0.5 USD. Many of the users ar...

Drug users in the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are mostlly smoked. Typically a portion of crystal meth is cheap, around 0.5 USD. Many of the users ar...

Drug users in the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are mostlly smoked. Typically a portion of crystal meth is cheap, around 0.5 USD. Many of the users ar...

A man has his hair cut on arrival at the Ibn Sinar Addiction clinic. While traditionally heroin and opium were the most common addiction causing drugs available in the country, over the last five year...

Drug users in the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are mostlly smoked. Typically a portion of crystal meth is cheap, around 0.5 USD. Many of the users ar...

Drug users in the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are mostlly smoked. Typically a portion of crystal meth is cheap, around 0.5 USD. Many of the users ar...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...

Drug users gather beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge on the banks of the Paghman river, a few kilometres outside the centre of Kabul. The drugs of choice are crystal meth, opium and heroin which are m...