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Compelled to choose between her family and crack, Norma, 36, sent her two children to live with friends. Now she sleeps in hallways and trashed buildings with a fellow crackhead.

Hallways brim with dealers and lookouts. The Uzi submachine gun has become the weapon of choice.

Since being thrown out of the house by her alcoholic mother, 17 year old crack Annie has been living in a fifth floor crack den.

Early morning at Red Hook. A young crackhead whose wife and children have left him, waits for a deal to come down.

With TV lights glaring and his mother listening from the doorway to the emergency room, a 16 year old died from an overdose.

A Denver paramedic overcome listening to the life story of a drug addicted prostitute.

Denver General Hospital. An addict in this day for a herion overdose, the next day for a broken leg.

Emergency rooms around the country, many of them underbudgeted and threatened with closing, are swamped with drug related traumas, accidents and overdoses. Here, a crack and PCP overdose in Denver resists the paramedics efforts to save her.

Day and night, in the heat and the cold, this mentally retarded woman earns 50 to 100 dollars a day that her husband uses for crack. Then they sleep in stairwells, eat junk food.

Tom, beggar, theif, and addict, up from New York subway where he has a mattress.