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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The shelter is what remains of the encampment as the cleanup of “The Tracks”, where heroin addicts gathered, continues.
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Intravenous drug users who are homeless camp under a railroad bridge where they sleep, eat and use heroin, due to the cleanup of “The Tracks.”
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High on heroin, the man wonders around the streets of Kensington.
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After injecting herself with heroin, a woman in a comatose state sits on the stairs of Prevention Point.