]It’s staggering to think that five years ago there was virtually
]no smack in Tynda. The first local tested HIV+ in 1999. Now there
]are 17-year-old junkies and AIDS is on the horizon. And the
]weirdest thing is that nobody seems to care.

]Take Misha. If he had died on us, we would have stuffed him in a
]trunk and ditched him in the Taiga a la Goodfellas. Only we
]wouldn’t have to worry if anyone found him a couple months from
]now. Nobody even counts the dead and missing junkies out here.
]I’m not trying to be callous and hardened-it’s just what we would
]have had to do.

Interesting article on heroin addiction in Tynda, Russia. A dying city, like many here.