Jérôme Sessini Jessica 27 (L) and her cousin Missy 30 (R) preparing a heroin injection. Jessica is pregnant and has 2 children. She has been addicted to heroin for 8 years after being prescribed Oxycodone for sco (...)
liosis. Chillicothe, Ohio, United States of America. March 17, 2018. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini Youngstown, in the Mahoning valley, is a post-industrial city. It's still the site of several steel and metalworking operations, though nothing on the scale seen during the "glory days" of the "Ste (...)
el Valley". Youngstown, Ohio, United States of America. March 9, 2018. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini United States of America. Portsmouth, Ohio. March 18, 2018.
Street scene downtown Portsmouth, once famous for shoe factories, Portsmouth is now better known as the setting of “Dreamland,” the accl (...)
aimed book by Sam Quinones that described how the proliferation of pain clinics (known as “pill mills”) helped create the opioid epidemic. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini Missy, 30, gets a heroin injection into the jugular vein by a friend. She's has been using heroin for three years. Her three children have been taken away by social services because of her addictio (...)
n. Chillicothe, Ohio, United States of America. March 15, 2018. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini United States of America. Youngstown, Ohio. March 12, 2018.
Youngstown, in the Mahoning valley, is a post-industrial city and it's still the site of several steel and metalworking operations, thou (...)
gh nothing on the scale seen during the "glory days" of the "Steel Valley". Steel industry fell into decline in the 1970s. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini United States of America. Portsmouth, Ohio. March 18, 2018.
Street scene downtown Portsmouth, once famous for shoe factories, Portsmouth is now better known as the setting of “Dreamland,” the accl (...)
aimed book by Sam Quinones that described how the proliferation of pain clinics (known as “pill mills”) helped create the opioid epidemic. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos