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At Minneapolis homeless camp, recovering addicts seek refuge amid the squalor

Ellen Dick had already survived a winter sleeping under bridges and near the railroad tracks in downtown Minneapolis without falling into relapse. It had been 11 months since she had touched a drug of any kind, her longest stretch in years.

Yet the 43-year-old mother of six said she recalled feeling “an overwhelming desire to get high” last month within hours of arriving at a sprawling homeless encampment in south Minneapolis, where drug overdoses are an almost daily occurrence. The sight of so many users and dealers, some calling out what drugs they had to offer, unleashed her old cravings as she struggled to pitch a tent in the driving rain.

http://www.startribune.com/at-minneapolis-homeless-camp-recovering-addicts-seek-refuge-amid-the-squalor/497535261/

 

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