Those little hells on earth existing even in developed countries (this one in the US)

A Hidden Hellscape

Along a half-mile gorge cut by a Conrail line that runs through Kensington and Fairhill, tens of thousands of used syringes and their tossed off orange caps cover the sloping ground like a plague of locusts

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Correa’s own addiction began when her mother introduced her to heroin at 16, she said.