On the dazzling white sands of a Zanzibar beach, a team of footballers is ecstatic, despite losing 5-3. The Muamko Recovery Team are all former heroin addicts and this was their first match in years.
"Did you ever imagine junkies playing football?" Rashid Yunus asks from the sidelines. He has been in recovery for less than a month and so can't put his body through the rigours that the match requires. Heroin addiction is a growing problem in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago which is part of Tanzania.
According to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, around 7% of the population smoke or inject the drug. People even suggest that every family on the islands contains at least one heroin addict…click on for full text>>>>>
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