![]() More than 1,200 people fatally overdosed in Philadelphia in 2017, one-third more than 2016.Īt the time, Philadelphia County had the highest overdose rate among the top 10 most populous counties in America.Īccording to the latest figures, 1,150 people died of drug overdoses in Philadelphia in 2019.Īn estimated 80 per cent of those resulted in overdoses involving opioids, a class of drugs that includes heroin and pharmaceutical painkillers like oxycodone, according to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. In 2017, 236 people suffered fatal overdoses as a result of drugs they purchased and used in Kensington. In recent years, however, some of the heroin had been mixed with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, resulting in a spike of deaths. Kensington is known among addicts as an area where they can get both the cheapest and purest heroin in the area.ĭealers from as far as Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey frequent the area to stock up on supplies before returning home to peddle the narcotics, according to The New York Times. The intersection of Somerset and Kensington Avenue has earned various nicknames including 'the Walmart of Heroin,' 'Philadelphia's Skid Row,' and 'the latest open-air drug market on the East Coast.' The image above shows one man who appears to be living out of a suitcase as he covers himself with a blanket
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