Recovering addicts bare souls in photo exhibit

The black-and-white photo shows a teenage girl huddled under a blanket on a porch. Her wide eyes look into the camera with hints of fear and sadness.

"The person deep inside me that nobody sees is an angry and sad person. I come across as a happy person excited about life. But I'm really not," Allison H. wrote in an excerpt that accompanies the picture.

She also wrote about how being unable to express her sadness and anger drove her "crazy" and led her to use cocaine.

Allison's portrait is one of 17 on display at the Anne Arundel County Circuit Courthouse as part of "Insights: The Identity Project," an exhibit by youths...