and other drug paraphernalia to individuals struggling with addiction on Skid Row. Advocates tout this program as a crucial aspect of harm reduction—the belief that by providing safer means of ...
Ace resides on what he considers "prime real estate"—an outlying area near 5th Street and Central Avenue, away from the worst of Skid Row's drug activity. He has lived there four years ...
In Lopez’s view, what created today’s Skid Row includes municipal abandonment combined with methamphetamine, the abdication of drug addiction and mental-illness treatment, misguided charity, ...