Editor's Note: This is the second installment of a story told in seven chapters about a man battling addiction in Albany. It is based on several months of interviews with Samuel "Poppy" Baez, a 59-year-old chronic alcoholic and crack addict who is also homeless and struggles with mental illness. Read more about him in our special section.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/specialreports/poppy/.
Cheap alcohol burns up lives in the South End as weather and years of abuse take toll
Albany
It's called the South End Grocery & Deli, but everyone knows it as the yellow store.
The nondescript convenience store is painted a shade of canary. It advertises 211 Steel Reserve in the window and specializes in other cheap, fortified malt liquors in 40-ounce bottles.
It caters to a cluster of chronic alcoholics who haunt this downtrodden nether reach of South Pearl Street, where the …
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