The sea is heavily polluted, heroin abuse is growing, and for people like Mohammed, there are no jobs.
So far one injection eliminated the highs experienced by a group of 15 heroin users for six weeks.
It said the likely cause of infection was a contaminated agent used to cut the heroin.
One day, she woke up to find a heroin user sleeping in her living room.
Long-term effects of injecting heroin include collapsed veins, loss of appetite and severe constipation.
Heroin use is also associated with crime as the drug is expensive to obtain.
The fact that heroin is often adulterated with other substances can also cause overdose.
But just 40 miles away in Baltimore, the problem, for years, has been heroin.
Anti-Mafia prosecutor Pierluigi Vigna said that cocaine had surpassed heroin as drug of choice for smugglers.
However, another drugs expert has said services should instead focus on helping addicts come off heroin.
Every month four to eight tonnes of heroin are thought to pass westward through the Balkans.
Similar heroin injection schemes in Holland and Switzerland have reported some users turning away from crime.
The heroin was found in her shopping bag alongside some Cornish pasties she had bought.
To buy heroin in Kabul is "as easy as buying yourself something to eat", addicts say.
He also is accused of obtaining heroin in New York City and Rhode Island.
But the street price of heroin and cocaine dropped sharply, indicating an increased supply.
My next wife, Julia, and I started our marriage with a heroin honeymoon in 1976.
Some forms of fentanyl are heroin substitutes, but up to a thousand times more powerful.
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Another risk is that a lot of drug dealers are cutting Ecstasy with heroin or cocaine.
Aubyn was sexually abused by his father, and has also been a heroin addict.
Myanmar, after all, is one of the world's leading producers of opium and heroin.
Soldiers also distributed heroin, Percocet and other drugs among themselves, according to the reports.
Now there is news that heroin from Afghanistan and the Golden Crescent is transiting through Thailand.
At the same time, his excruciating physical pain had led to a spiralling heroin addiction.
Police said a network originating in Manchester had co-ordinated cells supplying crack cocaine and heroin.
In Russia, by contrast, injecting heroin with dirty needles is the main source of infection.
He is further accused of possessing heroin at several locations in Lanarkshire and three theft charges.
He talks of gobbling painkillers, multiple overdoses, and falling asleep with heroin needles in his arms.
McKinnon admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin at his home in May 2011.
Polls show that very few Americans would try heroin or cocaine if it were legalised tomorrow.
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