'Portland sucked the life out of her': Mother searches downtown Portland for her homeless daughter

Behind many drug users in downtown Portland are the families suffering while trying to save them. It can be a near-impossible task.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Through the rows of tents and sleeping bodies scattered throughout parts of downtown Portland, Shannon Starr searches for her daughter, Jade Wilder. She calls out her street name, “Pax,” amid a cluster of tents near Old Town and gets no response. It could mean that Wilder isn’t here, but silence is often how she replies when she doesn’t want to be found.

For the past two months, Starr has spent every day walking the streets, trying to save her daughter who

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