Sex Drugs and Petersburg
One foreign lady photographer went down to the bottom of society of St. Petersburg Russia, where she has met children, junkies, prostitutes or often all together in one and made all those photos.
Sniffing poisonous glues inducing hallucinations seems to be one of the main fun for those kids.
The photos might look disturbing for someone..
photo credits: Lorena Ros
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Poor young people!
I agree… Very sad.
Out of the gene pool.
Unbind our words you pigheaded fleas!
Is Russia a “Great Country”???
you will find these sorts of images in any country.. United States, Great Britain, France, Germany… it’s a world wide pandemic
and it’s worse in Brazil… 8 to 13 Years old children addicted to crack….
Lucky here in Brazil we don’t have Meth or Heroin, otherwise we’ll be all doomed… To have crack is bad enough, crack is a plague on Brazil, a real social problem.
There is no Meth in Brazil? That sounds like a good business opportunity.
Zero Drop, I’m surprised also.
Meth labs are so common in the Desert Southwest you can sometimes smell them in the air!
Mexico is producing the most meth now because of big drug busts by the DEA in the states.In 2005 to 2007 Utah and Missori were the largest manufacturers of meth in the country.
what are you talking about.. of course there is Meth in Brazil…
In my 35 years of life, born and raised here in Brazil, I never seen Meth or heard of it in here. And I lived in Rio de Janeiro some years.
Heroin, on the other hand, in the big cities like Rio and São Paulo, if you have enough money, yes, you can have some. But isn’t a popular drug, absolutely. People don’t like needles here, this is a fact. Maybe, if you can look pretty hard and have money, you can get some Meth. To have no meth at all is an impossibility, but nothing like in the USA, where to get Meth and Heroin you just need money, the offer is no problem.
In Brazil, Marijuana is common, very very popular, “socially accepted” on big cities, almost. Cocaine too, but less expressive because of the quality and price, but it’s very easy to find. LSD and Ecstasy are also common on big cities. Crack, in other hand, is a plague, many many children addicted on the entire country, an ugly picture.
Crack alone is very know to produce pictures far worse than these from Russia. By the way, between poor people, glue is popular across the country, exactly like on the photos above.
Definitely is not a privilege from Russia these pictures, I am 100% sure that similar pictures can come from any part of the globe.
Argentina -al menos en eso, y tristemente - es muy similar a Brasil.
that wasn’t half as bad as I expected. American meth-heads look far worse.
Don’t they ever!
These addicts dress nicer than most rich American teens
What is inside the RV - the labels are unintelligible…
A “client” looking for a hooker? Bordello on wheels? Samaritans giving sterile needles to junkies for free?
I’d guess that the RV is some kind of needle change place, maybe run by religious people?
Btw, the side of the van says “St. Petersburg”. Can’t tell about the other text
Yes, free sterile needles, condoms and pregnancy tests.
I’m surprised they didn’t get a picture of an addict injecting something underneath their tongue!
It’s tragic to see someone young trying so hard to distroy themselves because some horrible adult has convinced them that they don’t deserve anything better!
Subtitles please! What the hell was that white van with blue letters?
Probably a place to trade needles and test yourself for AIDS..
Very sad.
The needle that delivers the drug stabs the mother first.
The women are so beautiful, it’s a shame that they live their lives like that.
Did they say “might look disturbing”
I think I might have nightmares.
Very very sad depressing pictures.
I was in Petersburg this year-and I have seen things like that-its sad,but you can meet drugs,prostitution etc in europe too,its not only a Russian it´s a global problem.
fake
why would junkies let themselves be photographed doing these things?
You’d be surprised what people do for money.
Somebody, need to help that boys, it`s really sad
Yes, is very sad and they need help. But they’re a drop of water in the ocean. There’s not enough help to all the addicted on the world.
And the drugs are the symptom, not the cause. They use the drugs as an escape. Ruined homes, lack of perspective, poverty, no qualification to find a job and other social problems are the real cause of this. At least they have some little help with these free condoms and free needles, better than don’t having them.
The girls are pretty, it’s a pity to see them in this situation. But I’m not surprised with this kind of situation anymore, doesn’t impress me anymore since a long time.
The world isn’t pretty, you know? And I’m not talking about Russia.
Fake, staged photos!
I would say that for a few bucks (sadly used to buy more drugs) they wouln’t care about some pictures taken… Even more if they’re high.
Russia has a Cosco now!!!!second pic down.
Cosco is not Costco
Oops,I was thinking of the wrong word.
Cool looks like a good party
Fucking sad site there….
But what can ya do.
it’s all jews fault.
Look the filthy Capitalist Swine are turning are little Russian girls into addicts and hos!
This is so disgusting you should not post this!
You don’t see outside of your house often, do you, Musa?
I’m tired to see scenes almost like these in broad daylight, on the street. The bigger the city, more common they are.
People *MUST* see these scenes. Definitely. To know that these things exist, so when someone talk on addicteds, everyone knows for sure of what thew’re talking about.
You are correct Zero Drop. I see this and I feel so ashamed and angry and I am sick inside for these beautiful Russian children, what else can I say.
Now isnt freedom a wonderful thing!
Go mind your own little addicts and hos. Then we talk freedom!
How many drug labs and drug traffikers from your neighboring countries are in your country?It is easy to blame someone else!
Do you know someone using drugs Musa?
You can leagly purchase drugs on the streets and in cafes in Norway!Drugs are made in many countries and not just in the USA!
Many good things have come from the capitalist USA Musa,not just drugs and gangsters which have been a long time world problem!!
is like in Brazil…
in Brazil the children who live in street use “Crack” and “Sniffing Glue”
the heroin is not used in the Brazil, is very expensive.
everything this is very sad!
MOSCOW(AP)
AIDS experts urged Russian officials on Wednesday to scrap their abstinence-based strategy for curbing the spread of HIV, saying the country’s fast-growing epidemic could be entering a dangerous new phase.
AIDS specialists meeting here urged Russia to adopt successful strategies such as needle exchange programs and heroin substitutes such as methadone for drug addicts.
The calls came in the face of a doubling in the number of HIV infections in Russia in the past eight years and despite evidence that in this region the virus is increasingly spread by heterosexual sex.
The rapid growth of the epidemic in Russia is in contrast to sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia, where prevalence of the virus fell during the same eight-year period, according to UNAIDS, the United Nations AIDS agency.
Russia’s chief public health officer, Gennady Onishchenko, told a regional AIDS conference Wednesday that Russia is “emphatically against” the use of drug replacement therapy. Meanwhile, he criticized needle exchanges, saying such programs may promote illicit drug sales and HIV transmission.
Robin Gorna, executive director of the International AIDS Society, a group representing health professionals involved in prevention and treatment of the illness, said the only needle exchange programs in Russia are some 75 funded primarily by foreign donors, 22 of which shut down in August after their grants ran out.
AIDS experts said the regions where those programs have operated in recent years have seen slower transmission rates than the rest of Russia.
Michel D. Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, told reporters at a news conference that he hoped the Russian government would pick up where the Global Fund left off and keep the programs going.
But Onishchenko, speaking at the same news conference, did not say whether the Russian government would do so.
UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe said methadone has proven effective elsewhere and that, despite progress, Russia still faces a growing epidemic. “It’s very dangerous,” Sidibe said. “We are seeing a huge increase in heterosexual transmission.”
What started as an epidemic among male injection drug users in the late 1990s has gradually moved into the communities of sex workers. By 2007 about 44 percent of new infections in Russia were among women, according to UNAIDS, raising fears it could move into the general population.
Onishchenko blamed the increase in HIV infections to the surge in Afghan poppy production over the past decade, a trend that has flooded the former Soviet Union with heroin.
AIDS activists say that another major factor is widespread stigmatization and discrimination, which drives many people with HIV to avoid testing and treatment. While the U.N. estimates Russia has 1.1 million people with HIV, the government says it has registered just half that number _ a total of 501,000 cases.
The disagreement isn’t limited to the count of total cases.
Kazatchkine of the Global Fund said Wednesday that only 23 percent of Russians who should be receiving anti-retroviral therapy for HIV are getting it. He said most nations are providing such therapy to 35 to 40 percent of those infected.
Onishchenko called this “strange data,” saying that everyone who needs it is getting the drug regimen, except for injection drug users who walk away from the program. “They are receiving treatment unless they escape treatment,” he asserted…
Stick your head in the sand and nothing will change for the better.
Poland, Wykop.pl
we with friends used BENZIN.
eeehm …. why is this post in the category “funny”? O___o
I totaly agree, this is not funny! category fail
Why should they look disturbing? They are like us, any university students, in any country.
This is Russia !
very silly compilation. All is not so, this is a provocation and deception!
Drugs suck dont destroy your life and your closer people life