Pictures of the Year International

Angela Vlakos holds back tears while speaking during a memorial service for her daughter, Amanda, in Orchard Beach, Md., on November 16, 2024. Amanda had been living for years in rat-infested abandoned buildings in Baltimore, fighting an addiction to opioids, when she learned of a possible escape: a drug-treatment program that offered patients free housing. Sober when they arrived, Vlakos and her boyfriend were placed in a barely furnished two-bedroom apartment with a succession of strangers who often used drugs. She relapsed after a month. Two years later, with nowhere else to go and no support from the program, she died of an overdose.