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Cocaine and methamphetamine are on the rise in Philly, even as the opioid crisis continues

They haven’t replaced heroin and other opioids, depressants that remain the dominant drugs of choice. More people, intentionally or not, are mixing drugs that offer the opposite effects.

A woman shows an Inquirer reporter and photographer crystal meth near Kensington and Allegheny Avenues, a street corner known to be at the center of the opioid epidemic in Philadelphia.
A woman shows an Inquirer reporter and photographer crystal meth near Kensington and Allegheny Avenues, a street corner known to be at the center of the opioid epidemic in Philadelphia.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer