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‘I Was Snorting 5 Grams a Day’: The Wild Life of a Cocaine-Addicted UN Worker

Executions, police beatings, and meeting teenage dealers in the favelas—a UN insider reveals his secret double life of addiction.

By As told to Mattha Busby

February 24, 2026, 8:56am

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