Opium addicts in Kabul City ‘chase the dragon’ in the bombed out basement ruins of the former Russian Cultural Centre in Kabul. Afghanistan. Opium is cheap and freely available in the city and the number of addicts is on the rapid increase. Some of the addicts are as young as eight. No photograph can convey the stench of a human being that has not washed for several months and has lived on a diet of opium and rotting scraps from restaurant dustbins.

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