The converging issues of heroin addiction and HIV have emerged as a public health emergency in Puerto Rico. With the government overwhelmed, non-profits groups try to fill the void This report is a collaboration between Fusion and the Guardian Link to video: Puerto Rico's drug addicts: 'Nobody wants to know them' It's just after noon in the hills of Cayey, and life in this sleepy Puerto Rican mountain town continues at a predictable pace. Old men lounge in a local park swapping stories amid the sweltering heat. Stores and diners bustle with customers, and the local church, Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, rings its bells on the hour. Nearby, hidden behind a thicket of lush trees and tall...
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