The Drugs Are Out There
The battle for the country's first safe injection site
Story by Benjamin Simon
Ten years in the streets of Kensington have worn on Alexis de Jesus. She has just one front tooth, from smoking crack and grinding her teeth. She has a gash on the back of her finger from a date gone wrong. And she contracted HIV, she says, from accidently stepping on a needle on her front stoop.
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