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 »
Posted by Mary Hartney - via Urbanite
As far as I can tell, the story is factual and presents the information fairly, making it good journalism. When you read a story on a topic about which you are not very familiar, you have to take the journalist at his word to a certain extent. This story did not raise any potential ethical concerns about this new tracking system. I would expect a new study such as the one described here would have serious ethical and privacy implications. Presumably the subjects all agreed to this study, but the issues are not even brought up in the article.
