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Addiction in paradise: Seychelles battles heroin crisis

The tiny island nation of Seychelles has rolled out methadone clinics in a bid to tackle snowballing heroin addiction

On a plain suburban street in Seychelles, far from the idyllic coastline and luxury resorts pampering honeymooners and paradise-seekers, heroin addicts queue anxiously for their daily dose of methadone.

It is a scene few outsiders would associate with the tropical nirvana adrift in the Indian Ocean, and one rarely, if ever, glimpsed by tourists as they shuttle from the airport to five-star luxury on white-sand beaches.

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