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Left: 10. Heroin addict in his hospital room at a State Drug Dispensary in Baku. Heroin addiction is a disease of the wealthy with the costs varying from $50 to $100 per gram.

Right: Stolen electricity. Refugee quarters at an unfinished building in Baku. As the Soviet Union collapsed, some buildings were abandoned in partially constructed form. Unfit for living, with gaping holes in floors and walls and lacking all communal services, more than 3,000 refugees have settled here, stealing electricity from the street.