Heroin addict in Harlem



This guy in a shooting gallery in Harlem asked me to photograph him "to help frighten other young people" so that they would not get to suffer like himself. He was unable to find any more healthy spots to shoot up in and had to take the foul-smelling bandage off his running sores to find a vein. He knew he had less than two years left to live.

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