Seychellen. Addiction in paradise: Seychelles battles heroin crisis
Seychellen. Addiction in paradise: Seychelles battles heroin crisis
On a plain suburban street in Seychelles, far from the idyllic coastline and luxury resorts pampering honeymooners and paradise-seekers, heroin addicts queue anxiously for their daily dose of methadone.
It is a scene few outsiders would associate with the tropical nirvana adrift in the Indian Ocean, and one rarely, if ever, glimpsed by tourists as they shuttle from the airport to five-star luxury on white-sand beaches.
But life for many Seychellois is far from picture perfect: the tiny archipelago nation is battling what officials say are the world's highest rates of heroin addiction. (MedicalXpress, USA, 20.02.2020)
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-addiction-paradise-seychelles-heroin-crisis.html