Visiting heroin users in Rawalapindhi

ICAN they took me and Shabana out to meet some of the local heroin users. We went to one of the spots where they use drugs, and visited one of the spots where they live.

In Rawalaphindhi the most common way of taking heroin is smoking not injecting. Apparently in Karachi and Lahore, much bigger cities that Rawalapindhi, there are more heroin injectors. But here the common method is much safer regards transmission of Hepatitis C. The heroin users live and take drugs in the most unimaginable filth. The smell was undescribable. The area they were living was under a stream of sewage and rubbish, living on layers and layers of rubbish. Here are some photos...you can't see much in the first one, then I zoomed in. If you look carefully in the dark you can see a blanket where somebody is sleeping.
Here's a photo of me and a few of the other workers standing on the tiny bridge over the open sewer/stream :

One of the lads we met was really upset. he had been beaten up by the police the night before:

They were a friendly bunch of young lads, and reminede me of lads from england. I think they quite enjoyed the attention!