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CORRECTS GENDER OF TSAW TSAW TO GIRL- In this Jan. 28 2014 photo, Hpatau Ma Hkang, a volunteer who was addicted to heroin for 30 years before his rehabilitation in 2013, carries two-year-old girl Tsaw Tsaw. The girl's parents are both going through a drug addiction rehabilitation program run by the Kachin Baptist Community at Nampatka Village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28 2014 photo, Hpatau Ma Hkang, a volunteer who was addicted to heroin for 30 years before his rehabilitation in 2013, carries two-year-old boy Tsaw Tsaw. The boy's patents are both going through a drug addiction rehabilitation program run by the Kachin Baptist Community at Nampatka Village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28 photo, pastor Labya Brang Aung, head of a drug rehabilitation, right, excursuses with newly enrolled drug addicts at a drug rehabilitation center run by the Kachin Baptist Community at Nampatka Village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Widespread drug availability around the rehabilitation center creates an enormous challenge for the addicts that go through the rehabilitation based on the faith and religious beliefs. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28 photo, young drug addicts watch television at a drug rehabilitation center run by the Kachin Baptist Community at Nampatka Village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Many residents said they are sick of seeing their community ripped apart by drugs, though growing opium is one of the few ways people can make money in impoverished rural areas of Myanmar such as this. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28 photo, Daw Li weeps before the graves of her two oldest sons, both victims of heroin overdoses, at Nampatka village cemetery, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. In this village, roughly half the population uses heroin and opium. Residents once hoped new political and economic reforms sweeping their country would bring change to the wild hinterlands. Instead, many say their lives have only gotten worse as local authorities’ complicity and neglect have enabled a spiraling drug trade. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28, 2014 photo, addicts are surrounded by discarded dirty needles and syringes at a cemetery in Nampatka village, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard to get high. Some junkies lean on white tombstones, tossing dirty needles and syringes into the dry, golden grass. Others squat on the ground, sucking from crude pipes fashioned from plastic water bottles. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
