On the Trail of Addiction

Urbanite by Michael Corbin | Mar. 1, 2011 (News)

Researchers map drug users’ moment-to-moment experiences as they travel the urban landscape.

By some measures, Baltimore has more heroin users than any other American city. Yet we don’t really see them. They are a part of the city’s complex drug economy: They are buyers and sellers, participants in treatment programs, inhabitants of jail and prison. Full Story »

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by Lucy Qian - Mar. 9, 2011

There are citations and people you can look up.

That this is sort of old news and I'm kind of surprised that they're only talking about this.

For example says Epstein, in Baltimore “you have neighborhoods that have drugs without violence, but not many neighborhoods that have violence without drugs.”

I believe that this is completely true, but also a known fact.

Heroin: from Baltimore to Virginia - See Info »