The country’s heroin reaches all corners of the world, but it is inside Afghanistan itself that a catastrophe of addiction is unfolding
The dark sea of huddled forms is almost impossible to take in at first.
The grimy, bent figures resemble residents of some vast, squalid dungeon. In the filthy riverbed nearby, scattered lifeless figures look like the aftermath of a battle, or an air crash.
There are close to 1,000 drug addicts sheltering under this bridge in a western neighbourhood of the Afghan capital.
