Rich Kid, Poor Kid: For 30 Years, Baltimore Study Tracked Who Gets Ahead

Houser went off to college at Frostburg State University, but he watched friends who grew up on the same blocks turn to drugs.

“A couple of us are dead. … We actually just had a buddy die from a heart attack, which is terrifying; he was 37, 38.” He pauses, remembering a friend who died 20 years ago this summer, from drugs.

Houser says he only smoked marijuana, but many of his friends didn’t stop there. So how did he avoid going down the same road?

“You see what happens. You see friends’ mothers start ‘tricking,’ or you see how they change, like, in a few months. They turn into skeletons. They turn into slaves. It’s horrifying,” he says.

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