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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Frank Main

Opioids have been killing the same generation of Black men in Chicago for decades

James Stewart got hooked on heroin in 1987.

Life was a party then. He was in his early 20s, playing basketball and hustling drugs on the West Side. He experimented with cough syrup and other drugs. And he tried heroin.

His body started to change. He was addicted. Soon, the party was over. And people he knew kept overdosing.

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