Rescued from Hell: Life after the High
Submitted by Dr. Rajesh Kumar
- 24 October 2016
This photo story documents the lives of children at a rehabilitation centre in Delhi. The majority of young drug users in India's capital city are addicted to marijuana and heroin. Rajesh Kumar, Executive Director of the Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses (SPYM), a non-profit organisation that works towards prevention of drug abuse, says some children start taking drugs as early as the age of 6 or 7. “It starts with fluid, which is cheaper. Then they graduate to marijuana and smack. There are many cases of children infected with HIV because they shared needles while injecting drugs,” says Kumar. The organisation runs a rehab centre only for children.
