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"The most rewarding part of my job is the smiles that we put on people’s faces,” says Sage Touré, case manager on Prevention Point Philadelphia’s (PPP) Integrated Health Care Case...

For the first time in 30 years, Lisette is sober. She’d never thought it possible. “I thought this would be my life forever. I was just going to die using,” says Lisette, 50, who...

Photo courtesy of the author. Left to right: Henry Fountain (author's brother), their father, Theo Fountain (author). By: Theo Fountain A few years ago, a stranger laid a gift...

For almost a decade, Jessica Gomes didn’t address that she was living with HIV. Yes, she’d used intravenous drugs, but she’d been careful about what syringes she used. Yes, doctors...

Mark was only 12 when he started drinking alcohol to excess, smoking weed, and taking pills. Not long after he began shooting heroin, mimicking what the older people around him...