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In this Jan 28 photo, young drug addicts gather outdoors for morning tea at a drug rehabilitation center run by the Kachin Baptist Community at Nampatka Village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. "Every family is affected," said Yaw Htung, Nampakta's village administrator. "Half the population of 8,000 uses. It's not just opium or heroin anymore, but methamphetamines." (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28, 2014 photo, addicts are surrounded by discarded dirty needles and syringes at a cemetery in Nampatka village, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard to get high. Some junkies lean on white tombstones, tossing dirty needles and syringes into the dry, golden grass. Others squat on the ground, sucking from crude pipes fashioned from plastic water bottles. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 27 photo, flourishing poppy fields spread through hills at Nampatka village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Infantry army base and several police posts overlook waves of white and pink poppies in full bloom on both sides of the dusty road leading to Nampakta, blanketing the sloping valleys and jagged peaks as far as the eye can see. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28, 2014 photo, heroin and opium addicts and drug dealers gather at a road adjoining the cemetery to shoot up and draw at pipes at Nampatka village, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard to get high. The drug trade - and addiction - is running wild along the jagged frontier. In this village, roughly half the population uses. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28, 2014 photo, addicts use needles at a cemetery in Nampatka village, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard to get high. Some junkies lean on white tombstones, tossing dirty needles and syringes into the dry, golden grass. Others squat on the ground, sucking from crude pipes fashioned from plastic water bottles. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
