Young Couple Struggles With Love and Addiction

july 10, 2002  11:27 am
Young Couple Struggles With Love and Addiction
For a quarter million New Yorkers like Terry, heroin is a life-shattering addiction. When Terry’s former girlfriend, Juliet, returned to the city, she found him in desperate straits, strung out and panhandling for his next fix. Before she leaves again, Juliet must help him renew his lease on life. “If I leave him now, he’ll get in really deep,” she says. Michael Kamber of The Village Voice spends four days with the couple as he chronicles their struggle to help Terry kick his toxic habit.