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Retirement home for drug addicts (Daily Life 2017, by Rolf Neeser) - Swiss Press Award

nursing home for drug addicts
nursing home for drug addicts
Winner
Photo / Daily Life
2017

Retirement home for drug addicts

Rolf Neeser

Not all drug addicts die of an overdose. Many \"druggies\" of the past have gone on to reach the age of retirement and there is a place for them in an old age nursing home in the Bernese Oberland. In the Spiez Solina, where these pictures were taken on 28th January 2016, they are allowed to drink, smoke pot and shoot-up with their daily dose of heroin in their rooms. Perhaps for the first time in their lives, they have found a real home.

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Winner
Photo / Daily Life
2017

Rolf Neeser

Not all drug addicts die of an overdose. Many \"druggies\" of the past have gone on to reach the age of retirement and there is a place for them in an old age nursing home in the Bernese Oberland. In the Spiez Solina, where these pictures were taken on 28th January 2016, they are allowed to drink, smoke pot and shoot-up with their daily dose of heroin in their rooms. Perhaps for the first time in their lives, they have found a real home.

Interview with Rolf Neeser

Swiss Press Photo 2017, Gewinner Alltag - Rolf Neeser

Interview with Rolf Neeser

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