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Puerto Rico's drug addicts: 'Nobody wants to know them'

  • May 14
  • 1 min read

Via @theGuardian en YouTube


Puerto Rico's drug addicts: 'Nobody wants to know them'

Puerto Rico has an HIV/Aids infection rate nearly four times the US national average -- and over half of these come from injection drug use. Overwhelmed and chronically underfunded, the existing framework of health programmes struggles to serve an estimated 60,000 intravenous drug users, so a patchwork of non-profit groups tries to fill the void. Fusion's Alexander Hotz and Kristofer Ríos investigate



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