Youth: Turning Off

"You know what's going to happen, don't you?" Felix Donawa asks the pretty, 20-year-old heroin user. "You're going to be out on the street turning tricks." "Let me see your hands," demands another questioner. "No needle marks. Not yet, anyway. You're lucky so far," he continues, then grimly goes into the details of how addicts have to keep looking for new veins to shoot heroin into as old ones collapse. "How would you like it, having to shoot up in your neck?" "I wouldn't," mumbles the girl.

The scene took place last week...

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