Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriendboth attractive, talented, and full of promiseare inexorably pulled into the living death of the hardcore junkie. It is a horrifying world where addicts will do anything to get their next fix. For twenty-three years of his young life, Donald Goines lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty-nine. He had worked up to a hundred-dollars-a-day habitand out of the agonizing hell cameDopefiend.
