A few weeks ago I had the chance to photograph the Chichevo Rehab center, a facility run by Russian Pentecostals for recovering drug addicts. Set two hours outside of Moscow, the center is surrounded by forest, dachas, babushkas and chickens. Every day the residents cook, clean, chop wood, take water from the well, construct new buildings and pray. While most of the residents are former heroin addicts and alcoholics, Irina Pavlova (the platinum blonde) is recovering from Krokodile, a new designer drug that is a combination of codeine, gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous. Cheaper than heroin and with similar effects, Krokodile is quickly becoming the drug of choice in the more remote regions of Russia. Check out Simon Shuster's article on TIME for more about the drug and Irina.
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