Ney followed a path familiar to many heroin users: more than a decade in and out of recovery houses, incarceration, and bouts of homelessness. Originally from rural Schuylkill County, she lived on the streets here for three years. The Queen of South Philly, Quinn called her. Everyone seemed to know her, as much for her tough exterior as for her concern about others on the street. Before she entered Pathways and got her own apartment, the outreach worker who found her body remembered, she was quick to help her friends into treatment — but never herself.