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In New York's shantytown, drugs and alcohol were everyday. Fred and Rose, shown here in a reunion, were among those later wiped out by AIDS.

Beneath the sheet is a nine year old shooting victim, a 'John Doe', as yet unclaimed. Children such as this are often used as runners and lookouts for dealers, then murdered.

Detroit. Parents looking for their runaway kids look at televised images of dead children found on the streets.

Drug busts are so common that neighbors, not unlike the outside world, pay little attention.

Two men, one with a needle still in his leg, died moments after shooting perhaps a too pure heroin.

A good cop, angry that an addict brought his kids along when he bought drugs.

Police forced their way into a crack house on Mutter St., North Philadelphia. Shorty, 13, was ultimately set free.

Interrogation of suspected dealers in an overheated police car.

Vincent and his mother Barbara, 34, share hits on a crack pipe. The two of them live in an 8x12 room in a crack house and sleep on opposite sides of one couch. Barbara smokes crack eight times a day.

Human and legal rights are often on hold when drugs are hunted. Here a suspected dealer is held down as police search for a gun.