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  • Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
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    Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aslon Arfa / Rex Features ( 912727r )
    Shahnaz in her house in Tehran, June 24, 2008.
    Black Crack - The Scourge Of Tehran
    BLACK CRACK - THE SCOURGE OF TEHRAN

    Far from the eyes of the Western press and its views on Iranian politics and religious ideologies, lie the forgotten, the unwanted and the wretched - the hordes of Tehran's drug addicts.

    While our general belief of Iran being a strict Muslim state may be more or less correct, many of us may not realise that it has a very liberal and enlightened approach to tackling its people's drug problems.

    However, maybe this is more out of necessity than choice: Iran has the largest heroin problem in the entire world and a ballooning rate of Aids cases on the back of it.

    Exacerbating this problem is the nature of the drug that most of these scores of thousands of addicts are hooked on: compressed, crystallised heroin - aka black crack.

    Most people associate the slang word 'crack' with cocaine, but in fact it simply refers to the crystal form of a drug and the noise made when heated.

    In this case 'black crack' is something of a misnomer, as it is in fact white heroin, compressed and considerably purer, stronger and hence even more dangerous than brown heroin.

    Its manufacture process entails heroin being added to water which is boiled, then distilled to purify the drug by passing it through a pipe to lose its heat. The end product, with a little help from sodium bicarbonate and other various pills and chemicals, should be the crystal, or 'crack', form of the drug.

    Obviously the purity of the crack depends on the purity of the heroin used, a grade that can often be judged by the colour of the original heroin - usually somewhere between a cream and white colour, the darker the heroin, the more impurities it has.

    Such is the strength and resultant danger of this form of the opiate that authorities...
    For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/HBJPDGFA

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  • Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    DUKAS_09625497_REX
    Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aslon Arfa / Rex Features ( 912727s )
    A girl in the yard of the house which Shahnaz is living in Tehran, June 24, 2008.
    Black Crack - The Scourge Of Tehran
    BLACK CRACK - THE SCOURGE OF TEHRAN

    Far from the eyes of the Western press and its views on Iranian politics and religious ideologies, lie the forgotten, the unwanted and the wretched - the hordes of Tehran's drug addicts.

    While our general belief of Iran being a strict Muslim state may be more or less correct, many of us may not realise that it has a very liberal and enlightened approach to tackling its people's drug problems.

    However, maybe this is more out of necessity than choice: Iran has the largest heroin problem in the entire world and a ballooning rate of Aids cases on the back of it.

    Exacerbating this problem is the nature of the drug that most of these scores of thousands of addicts are hooked on: compressed, crystallised heroin - aka black crack.

    Most people associate the slang word 'crack' with cocaine, but in fact it simply refers to the crystal form of a drug and the noise made when heated.

    In this case 'black crack' is something of a misnomer, as it is in fact white heroin, compressed and considerably purer, stronger and hence even more dangerous than brown heroin.

    Its manufacture process entails heroin being added to water which is boiled, then distilled to purify the drug by passing it through a pipe to lose its heat. The end product, with a little help from sodium bicarbonate and other various pills and chemicals, should be the crystal, or 'crack', form of the drug.

    Obviously the purity of the crack depends on the purity of the heroin used, a grade that can often be judged by the colour of the original heroin - usually somewhere between a cream and white colour, the darker the heroin, the more impurities it has.

    Such is the strength and resultant danger of this ...
    For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/HBJPDGFA

    DUKAS/REX

     

  • Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    DUKAS_09625495_REX
    Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aslon Arfa / Rex Features ( 912727u )
    Shahnaz is smoking crack in her house in Tehran, June 24, 2008.
    Black Crack - The Scourge Of Tehran
    BLACK CRACK - THE SCOURGE OF TEHRAN

    Far from the eyes of the Western press and its views on Iranian politics and religious ideologies, lie the forgotten, the unwanted and the wretched - the hordes of Tehran's drug addicts.

    While our general belief of Iran being a strict Muslim state may be more or less correct, many of us may not realise that it has a very liberal and enlightened approach to tackling its people's drug problems.

    However, maybe this is more out of necessity than choice: Iran has the largest heroin problem in the entire world and a ballooning rate of Aids cases on the back of it.

    Exacerbating this problem is the nature of the drug that most of these scores of thousands of addicts are hooked on: compressed, crystallised heroin - aka black crack.

    Most people associate the slang word 'crack' with cocaine, but in fact it simply refers to the crystal form of a drug and the noise made when heated.

    In this case 'black crack' is something of a misnomer, as it is in fact white heroin, compressed and considerably purer, stronger and hence even more dangerous than brown heroin.

    Its manufacture process entails heroin being added to water which is boiled, then distilled to purify the drug by passing it through a pipe to lose its heat. The end product, with a little help from sodium bicarbonate and other various pills and chemicals, should be the crystal, or 'crack', form of the drug.

    Obviously the purity of the crack depends on the purity of the heroin used, a grade that can often be judged by the colour of the original heroin - usually somewhere between a cream and white colour, the darker the heroin, the more impurities it has.

    Such is the strength and resultant danger of this form of the opiate...
    For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/HBJPDGFA

    DUKAS/REX

     

  • Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    DUKAS_09625493_REX
    Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aslon Arfa / Rex Features ( 912727t )
    Shahnaz in her house in Tehran, June 24, 2008.
    Black Crack - The Scourge Of Tehran
    BLACK CRACK - THE SCOURGE OF TEHRAN

    Far from the eyes of the Western press and its views on Iranian politics and religious ideologies, lie the forgotten, the unwanted and the wretched - the hordes of Tehran's drug addicts.

    While our general belief of Iran being a strict Muslim state may be more or less correct, many of us may not realise that it has a very liberal and enlightened approach to tackling its people's drug problems.

    However, maybe this is more out of necessity than choice: Iran has the largest heroin problem in the entire world and a ballooning rate of Aids cases on the back of it.

    Exacerbating this problem is the nature of the drug that most of these scores of thousands of addicts are hooked on: compressed, crystallised heroin - aka black crack.

    Most people associate the slang word 'crack' with cocaine, but in fact it simply refers to the crystal form of a drug and the noise made when heated.

    In this case 'black crack' is something of a misnomer, as it is in fact white heroin, compressed and considerably purer, stronger and hence even more dangerous than brown heroin.

    Its manufacture process entails heroin being added to water which is boiled, then distilled to purify the drug by passing it through a pipe to lose its heat. The end product, with a little help from sodium bicarbonate and other various pills and chemicals, should be the crystal, or 'crack', form of the drug.

    Obviously the purity of the crack depends on the purity of the heroin used, a grade that can often be judged by the colour of the original heroin - usually somewhere between a cream and white colour, the darker the heroin, the more impurities it has.

    Such is the strength and resultant danger of this form of the opiate that authorities...
    For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/HBJPDGFA

    DUKAS/REX

     

  • Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    DUKAS_09625530_REX
    Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aslon Arfa / Rex Features ( 912727i )
    Shahnaz is smoking Crack in her house in Tehran, July 30, 2007. Shahnaz is a divorced woman with two children and is a crack addict.
    Black Crack - The Scourge Of Tehran
    BLACK CRACK - THE SCOURGE OF TEHRAN

    Far from the eyes of the Western press and its views on Iranian politics and religious ideologies, lie the forgotten, the unwanted and the wretched - the hordes of Tehran's drug addicts.

    While our general belief of Iran being a strict Muslim state may be more or less correct, many of us may not realise that it has a very liberal and enlightened approach to tackling its people's drug problems.

    However, maybe this is more out of necessity than choice: Iran has the largest heroin problem in the entire world and a ballooning rate of Aids cases on the back of it.

    Exacerbating this problem is the nature of the drug that most of these scores of thousands of addicts are hooked on: compressed, crystallised heroin - aka black crack.

    Most people associate the slang word 'crack' with cocaine, but in fact it simply refers to the crystal form of a drug and the noise made when heated.

    In this case 'black crack' is something of a misnomer, as it is in fact white heroin, compressed and considerably purer, stronger and hence even more dangerous than brown heroin.

    Its manufacture process entails heroin being added to water which is boiled, then distilled to purify the drug by passing it through a pipe to lose its heat. The end product, with a little help from sodium bicarbonate and other various pills and chemicals, should be the crystal, or 'crack', form of the drug.

    Obviously the purity of the crack depends on the purity of the heroin used, a grade that can often be judged by the colour of the original heroin - usually somewhere between a cream and white colour, the darker the heroin, the more impurities it has.

    ...
    For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/HBJPDGF

    DUKAS/REX

     

  • Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    DUKAS_09625476_REX
    Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aslon Arfa / Rex Features ( 912727h )
    Shahnaz is smoking Crack in her house in Tehran, July 30, 2007. Shahnaz is a divorced woman with two children and is a crack addict.
    Black Crack - The Scourge Of Tehran
    BLACK CRACK - THE SCOURGE OF TEHRAN

    Far from the eyes of the Western press and its views on Iranian politics and religious ideologies, lie the forgotten, the unwanted and the wretched - the hordes of Tehran's drug addicts.

    While our general belief of Iran being a strict Muslim state may be more or less correct, many of us may not realise that it has a very liberal and enlightened approach to tackling its people's drug problems.

    However, maybe this is more out of necessity than choice: Iran has the largest heroin problem in the entire world and a ballooning rate of Aids cases on the back of it.

    Exacerbating this problem is the nature of the drug that most of these scores of thousands of addicts are hooked on: compressed, crystallised heroin - aka black crack.

    Most people associate the slang word 'crack' with cocaine, but in fact it simply refers to the crystal form of a drug and the noise made when heated.

    In this case 'black crack' is something of a misnomer, as it is in fact white heroin, compressed and considerably purer, stronger and hence even more dangerous than brown heroin.

    Its manufacture process entails heroin being added to water which is boiled, then distilled to purify the drug by passing it through a pipe to lose its heat. The end product, with a little help from sodium bicarbonate and other various pills and chemicals, should be the crystal, or 'crack', form of the drug.

    Obviously the purity of the crack depends on the purity of the heroin used, a grade that can often be judged by the colour of the original heroin - usually somewhere between a cream and white colour, the darker the heroin, the more impurities it has.

    ...
    For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/HBJPDGF

    DUKAS/REX

     

  • Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    DUKAS_09625475_REX
    Crack addicts in Tehran, Iran - 2000s
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aslon Arfa / Rex Features ( 912727g )
    Shahnaz is walking in a street to go home, July 30, 2007. Shahnaz is a divorced woman with two children and is a crack addict.
    Black Crack - The Scourge Of Tehran
    BLACK CRACK - THE SCOURGE OF TEHRAN

    Far from the eyes of the Western press and its views on Iranian politics and religious ideologies, lie the forgotten, the unwanted and the wretched - the hordes of Tehran's drug addicts.

    While our general belief of Iran being a strict Muslim state may be more or less correct, many of us may not realise that it has a very liberal and enlightened approach to tackling its people's drug problems.

    However, maybe this is more out of necessity than choice: Iran has the largest heroin problem in the entire world and a ballooning rate of Aids cases on the back of it.

    Exacerbating this problem is the nature of the drug that most of these scores of thousands of addicts are hooked on: compressed, crystallised heroin - aka black crack.

    Most people associate the slang word 'crack' with cocaine, but in fact it simply refers to the crystal form of a drug and the noise made when heated.

    In this case 'black crack' is something of a misnomer, as it is in fact white heroin, compressed and considerably purer, stronger and hence even more dangerous than brown heroin.

    Its manufacture process entails heroin being added to water which is boiled, then distilled to purify the drug by passing it through a pipe to lose its heat. The end product, with a little help from sodium bicarbonate and other various pills and chemicals, should be the crystal, or 'crack', form of the drug.

    Obviously the purity of the crack depends on the purity of the heroin used, a grade that can often be judged by the colour of the original heroin - usually somewhere between a cream and white colour, the darker the heroin, the more impurities it has.

    Such ...
    For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/HBJPDGFA

    DUKAS/REX