Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Crack cocaine usage has surged in Brazil over the past six years, with a recent study by the Universidade Federal de São Paulo putting the nationwide figure of users at over a million. A new programme in the state of São Paulo represents an attempt at a radical solution. On 21 January, city officials in began rounding up crack addicts from the street and forcing them to seek treatment.

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