STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID GUTTENFELDERSeeking
relief from pain,
many Americans
get addicted
to prescribed
opioids and then
turn to heroin,
fentanyl,
or other drugs.
It’s a crisis
that touches
every part of
the country.
On Philadelphia’s
Kensington
Avenue,
the misery
of livesis in plain sight.
derailed by drugs
The rules of society seemed to have va
What remained was a raw struggle for
one thing: the rush of relief from pain.