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Tamika wanders behind shed where her mother and a friend got high earlier.

This and following pictures are from the 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning series Orphans of Addiction by Clarence Williams of the Los Angeles Times. Page via Morgaine.

Tamika Triggs, 3, dozes on a filthy mattress in a shed in Long Beach while her mother, Theodora, right, and a friend, Dorene McDonald, get high on crack cocaine and heroin.

Tamika looks out a bus window. Her life revolves around her mother’s drug abuse. This year, Tamika has lived in at least nine places, including a crack den, the home of an ex-boyfriend’s mother, a garage and a hotel.