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Myanmar's heroin addicts resort to religion's help

Agencies | Updated: 2013-07-10 15:12
Myanmar's heroin addicts resort to religion's help

Residents wait for food to be distributed as one of them plays a religious song on the guitar at "The Light of The World" rehabilitation centre for heroin addicts in Myitkyina, the capital of Myanmar's Kachin state July 6, 2013.[Photo/Agencies]

Myanmar's heroin addicts resort to religion's help

Noah Aung Hla (L) and Wun Naung Lay pass the time in a bamboo cell called the "Special Prayer Room", where they are locked in for their first week at the Youth for Christ Centre for heroin addicts, near Naung Chein in Myanmar's Kachin state July 5, 2013. Naung Lay is one of more than 600 young men who have undergone primitive drug rehabilitation at the Youth for Christ Centre, a collection of tin-roofed shacks on a riverbank in Kachin State. [Photo/Agencies]

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