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India’s Invisible Addicts

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India’s Invisible Addicts

Along the back alleys of India’s booming capital city, thousands of homeless children have ignited an epidemic of addiction to a cheap, unlikely and deadly drug.

Andrea de Franciscis
May 26, 2014
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Mushraf, who thinks he is twelve but he is not sure, is a tiny boy with an ironic grin who sniffs six tubes of glue a day.

For the last five years he has been living in the back alleys around New Delhi’s railway station with a small gang of street children.

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