Forced medical intervention for crack addicts in Sao Paulo A year ago, on January 3rd 2012, military police moved in to an area known as 'Cracolandia' in the centre of Sao Paulo and arrested 2000 drug addicts - but a year later, 'Cracolandia' has gone nowhere. Facing the resurging problem, the city government has launched a new programme to fight crack - aiming to forcibly take addicts into residential psychiatric care. Images and soundbites.