Heroin in Denver: Photos from a Denver Post Special Project

A life of panhandling on the streets of Denver is brutal, boring and soul-crushing.

Many of those who do it are long-time substance abusers, caught in a vicious cycle: You wouldn’t stand out there 12 hours a day unless you desperately needed heroin, and then only another dose of heroin would get you through another 12 hours.

Angel Gamboeck was one of those stuck in that terrible, seemingly endless circle, for much of the past two years in Denver. A young, once-promising girl from the Wisconsin heartland, she ended up here after a failed move West to seek a new life with her boyfriend.

Read the full story – Fallen Angel: A young heroin addict finds a home in Denver

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   This article really impacted me. When I lived...I passed by these

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    This is scary stuff and hard to look at, but really amazing work and a frighteningly intimate look at heroin on the...

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    wtf is the draw? .oO(hmm i wana throw away my life and die in a ditch or alley tonight!!) like… really?

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    Great work…

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41. mrsgeiger said: Sad stuff. Thanks for the series.
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    Tragic that money is being spent on “cracking down...marijuana” everywhere, when

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