Controversial São Paulo project offers jobs to crack addicts in Cracôlandia

Edit The Guardian 29 Oct 2014
But critics say the city’s Open Arms programme is flawed by not requiring participants to give up drugs. The Fluxo, where most crack is traded in Cracôlandia, is confined to a square the size of a city block. Photograph. Almudena Toral ... Proponents say it could be a model for other cities in the region ... Photograph. Almudena Toral ... its Project Recomeço (Restart) started last year and rehabilitation involves lengthy hospital stays for addicts....
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