Kensington, a Philadelphia neighborhood in Pennsylvania, for decades has struggled with unemployment, crime and poverty. Its current trouble comes in the form of an influx of opioid abuse, those abusing them and the East Coast’s largest open air heroin market.
Photo gallery: Philadelphia's Wasteland
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Davey points to where he injects heroin in the vein on the side of his neck.
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A former Intensive Care Unit nurse, Sarah, 34, repeatedly returns to Kensington due to her heroin addiction following attempts to stay clean.
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An area known as “The Tracks”, where hundreds of heroin addicts would gather to use drugs, is in the process of a cleanup.
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Needles used to inject heroin litter the ground of the Kensington neighborhood, known for its open air heroin market.