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[Xhuliana Agolli]

Dozens of addicts light up nightly in caves at a cemetery outside Quetta, Pakistan, where few of the estimated 12,000 opium smokers can afford the $8-a-month cost of food and medicine at the city's 25-bed rehabilitation center.

For the drug addicts in downtown Quetta, Pakistan, life boils down to the next dose of opium.

A young man, incoherent after inhaling opium, as a syringe dangled from his friend's arm in downtown Quetta.

Mooruddin Aki's arms were chopped off by the Taliban for smoking opium in an Afghan school; the 18-year-old now begs on the streets of Quetta.

Vincent Laforet/New York Times

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