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>> we can go to east new york or harlem and find many people shooting up or using pills who are not white, lower middle class people. this is anad epidemic affecting all races and demographics and that is looked past in the media. it is easier for reporters -- most reporters are white. i am white and i am a reporter. i am speaking from experience and most newsrooms most reporters are white. i think white reporters feel more comfortable going to white neighborhoods who write about white drug addicts. i think if you saw more people of color in news rooms you would see this represented more fairly in the press. i wanted to cover that aspect of it. i will talk to you about an area in baltimore called oxy alley

which is a small stretch on pennsylvania avenue and i spent a lot of time writing about the addicts there. this is a place where many drugs ended up. they call it oxy alley. if looks like any other blighted street on first glance in baltimore filled with vacant homes, discarded liquor bottles and addicts stumbling around. but a closer look at the run down stretch on pennsylvania reveals something more troubling. for every vacant, opiate addicts are getting high on looted pill city addicts. two fresh users are in one of the roach infested homes boiling down a batch of pills. chesia's six-year-old son sits in the corner and the women speculate about the quality of

drugs they are going to theject. going to be real nice she says while melting the drugson the spoon. black ivys, 40 mill grams. terry who is six weeks pregnant with her first child and hasn't seen the boy's father in five. i to make the most of it today because i can't be fooling around with pills no more. these are my send off. bill city gives name to the opiates. brands that change based on the vary and dosage. mike tysons, black dominos, and red tails were all the rage in april. in early may, it was paints, blue angels and dark nights. now is beyonces and black ivy they are clamoring for. they haven't let us down yet saidchesia like harry who began

abusing pain pills earlier this month. i am sure they are doing right by us. there are addicts just like them down the alley shooting and snorting. many who got pills from jimmy masters before pill city came along. jimmy master is part of a crew going to battle with pill city over drug corners. the concentration of drugbuse drugbusers -- drug abusers is the highest in the country. it ravaging the city. ....