Brazil wrestles with crack epidemic

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CNN) - It's called "cracolandia" -- crackland -- where drug users crouch underneath plastic tarps and shuffle down a dimly lit road like modern-day zombies.

One young woman in jean shorts wanders by, pushing a baby carriage piled high with garbage. There are stacks of disposable plastic water cups used as improvised crack pipes.

Brazil has surpassed the United States as the world's No.1 consumer of crack cocaine, according to the Federal University of Sao Paulo. It shares borders with the world's biggest cocaine-producing countries -- Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. Strong economic growth has meant more disposable income for everything from microwave ovens to drugs.

There's nothing left than pray for this beautiful country. Instead of criticiIng this people, we should therefore treat them with love, maybe that's what they lack and go to the streets. Brazil for Christ!!!!