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This photo made, Saturday, March 15, 2014 shows a border patrol vehicle patrolling along the Abram border fence in Abram, Texas., near where a migrant women, an adult who was traveling with her teenage daughter and a teenage friend, was spotted by a Border Patrol camera Wednesday afternoon. Officials said her wrists had been cut and were bloodied. She was one of three female immigrants from Honduras who according to officials tried to surrender to Border Patrol Agent Esteban Manzanares Wednesday afternoon near Anzalduas Park on Mission, Texas. Manzanares killed himself early Thursday and the FBI is investigating allegations that he kidnapped and assaulted the migrants before committing suicide. (AP Photo/Alicia A. Caldwell)
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In this Jan 28, 2014 photo, a woman, identified by the villagers as a drug dealer, retails heroin and opium for addicts in Nampatka village, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. Dealers hanging out at the graveyard, on street corners and behind hillside homes pay security forces to leave them alone, a senior village official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals. The drug trade - and addiction - is running wild along the jagged frontier. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28 2014 photo, Hpatau Ma Hkang, a volunteer who was addicted to heroin for 30 years before his rehabilitation in 2013, carries two-year-old boy Tsaw Tsaw. The boy's patents are both going through a drug addiction rehabilitation program run by the Kachin Baptist Community at Nampatka Village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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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 photo, pastor Labya Brang Aung, head of a drug rehabilitation, right, excursuses with newly enrolled drug addicts at a drug rehabilitation center run by the Kachin Baptist Community at Nampatka Village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Widespread drug availability around the rehabilitation center creates an enormous challenge for the addicts that go through the rehabilitation based on the faith and religious beliefs. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28 photo, young drug addicts watch television at a drug rehabilitation center run by the Kachin Baptist Community at Nampatka Village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Many residents said they are sick of seeing their community ripped apart by drugs, though growing opium is one of the few ways people can make money in impoverished rural areas of Myanmar such as this. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28 photo, Daw Li weeps before the graves of her two oldest sons, both victims of heroin overdoses, at Nampatka village cemetery, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. Residents once hoped new political and economic reforms sweeping their country would bring change to the wild hinterlands. Instead, many say their lives have only gotten worse as local authorities’ complicity and neglect have enabled a spiraling drug trade. (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)
