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A 16 year old crackhead turning tricks with her one year old child in tow. The young woman charges $20 for her services, then the room rent is paid. Most of the rest of the money goes for drugs.

Denise, a longtime addict smokes crack in her home. Her one year old child screams and thrashes about when her mother is using drugs.

Children on the way to a game of sandlot football stop to play amid thousands of empty crack vials that were dropped by a young dealer as he fled from dealers whom he had robbed.

The funeral of 'Poochie', a 15 year old, who was killed when he refused to give up his leather coat.

In a crack infested drug neighborhood, the wife of a night watchman sleeps with a .38 beneath her pillow.

Sam, 21, has the street nickname Ruthless. A dealer since the age of 12, he is now the heavily armed enforcer or protector for the Philadelphia drug gang, the Ninth Street Posse.

Jenny, sick and vomitting from smoking crack and taking valium.

Freedom's mother cannot bear to discuss her son's addiction. Another son is a physician.

A junkie nicknamed Freedom injects heroin on a rooftop.

Donna, crackhead, mother of one child, was pregnant with twins when this picture was taken. At birth, the addicted children were taken from her.