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Route of Evil
![[MAP: Guinea-Bissau, a major hub on the cocaine route to Europe, has become Africa's first narco-state.]](http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/05/25/GR2008052500077.gif)
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"We need a new prison. It's urgent," Correia said.
In Quinhamel, a village about 22 miles west of Bissau, the country's only drug rehab center sits at the end of a long dirt road.
One recent morning, several dozen recovering addicts lay under shady trees; some slept in the dirt. Dju and four others were chained together because they were newcomers still deemed potentially violent.
Domingos Te, an evangelical pastor, opened the center in 2002 for people addicted to alcohol or marijuana. Now, he said, "cocaine use is rampant."
Abdulie Injie, 27, said he used to earn a good salary as a house painter. But since he started using cocaine a couple of years ago, all his wages were going up his nose.
He said he stole from his family to buy drugs. A month ago, he said, he realized he was sick, so he asked his family to bring him here.
As he spoke, another patient at the center ran screaming through the dirt courtyard and out the gate. Four men chased him down and brought him back. Te gave him a mild sedative to soothe his withdrawal from cocaine.
"We don't know where it comes from," Injie said. "But now everyone has it. Every family."
