Nearly a year after she watched in horror as a dozen people dropped like dominoes during a mass overdose in the Penn North neighborhood, Yolanda Witherspoon roamed the same alley behind a CVS store where people collapsed — and where she still buys drugs.
Witherspoon, 60, told The Baltimore Sun she uses cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. Since the mass overdoses last summer, she said she rarely buys from drug dealers she doesn’t know.
“I’m more careful about where I get my drugs from. I use the test strips,” Witherspoon said. The strips allow people who use drugs to check for the presence of dangerous substances, such as xylazine, an animal sedative not approved for use in humans. “You never know when someone else might sell a bad batch of drugs.”…