Daily News reporter discusses recent article, ‘A Hidden Hellscape,’ on Philly heroin crisis
(Michael Bryant/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Stephanie Farr joins NewsWorks Tonight host Tom MacDonald to discuss a recent article.
“Along a half-mile gorge cut by a Conrail line that runs through the Kensington and Fairhill, tens of thousands of used syringes and their tossed off orange caps cover the sloping ground like a plague of locusts.”
That’s the opening line of a story highlighting Philadelphia’s heroin epidemic in this weekend’s Inquirer and Daily News co-written by Stephanie Farr, who joins us on NewsWorks Tonight.
Listen to their conversation below, and click through to read their story online.
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