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Published 27 Feb, 2012 11:31am

Young addicts have hope

The flourishing opium production in Afghanistan has resulted in more than four million addicts in Pakistan. In Peshawar, some of the youngest end up in mud-walled rooms being drilled in extreme Muslim doctrine or on the streets and into prostitution for money and shelter followed by hashish and glue-sniffing.  Yet in this rugged frontier city in northwest Pakistan, where people carry guns as casually as they would a daily newspaper, these young addicts have hope - a charity-run boarding school for homeless, drug-addicted children.– Text and photos by AP

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