Tajikistan grapples with drug addiction
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_on_he_me/apn_drug_corridor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061210/capt.2cb63f8e140f487da6da71832f9963fe.apn_drug_corridor_mosb502.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=WCGOK9YeRReJL0tOt4X1ow--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Sergei Kozlov, director of the drug addict residential treatment center 'Drop-in-Center,' speaks with an unidentified female drug addict in the center in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Nov. 2, 2006. Tajikistan grapples with a surge in drug addiction. Drugs from Afghanistan, where the U.N. says opium cultivation has hit record levels, now threaten to swamp Tajikistan. ( AP Photo/Sergei Grits)" border="0" /></a>AP - Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood.</p><br clear="all"/>