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"Don't get it twisted" (Drug addiction)


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Drug Abuse In Los Santos

As is true of many major cities in the U.S., substance abuse has been a common struggle in Los Santos for decades. The city’s proximity to the Mexico may be in part to blame, as it makes LS a prime location for Central and South American drug traffickers to transport and distribute illicit substances.

The crack cocaine epidemic that swept the nation in the 1980s destroyed countless lives and families across the U.S. The epidemic is believed to have originated in South Central Los Santos, where imported Colombian cocaine was converted to crack and sold in impoverished, black communities. Evidence of the drug’s destruction is still apparent in those communities today.

In low-income neighborhoods of South Los Santos, the enduring lure of the cheap, potent drug ‘has changed the architecture of the community,’ in the words of Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Mark Steringer. The crack epidemic rolled through some lives like a wildfire and burned slowly through others over years. Crack steered fathers to jail, lured mothers into the streets and left children to raise themselves in neighborhoods bristling with despair and anger. Their families and communities were left scorched and in many cases, still smoldering.

- Los Santos Times article, 2010

Crack cocaine is not the only illicit drug that plagues the City of Los Santos. According to a 2019 report by the National Drug Intelligence Center, Los Santos’ high intensity drug trafficking area (HIDTA) is increasingly being used to transit and sell methamphetamine from Mexico. The report also noted there’s been an increase in local production of marijuana.

The increase in the availability of both meth and marijuana correlate to the recent increase in addiction treatment admissions for both drugs. In the first half of 2020, nearly 19 percent of treatment admissions were for methamphetamine and more than 27 percent were for marijuana—more than half of these marijuana admissions were people under the age of 18. Heroin abuse is also a problem in LS, with more than 4,000 treatment admissions for the drug from January to June 2021.


"Bodies dropping on the daily like it's some type of sickness."


 

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"It's painful don't get it twisted"


 

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OOC - This thread shadows the lives of drug addicts and displays the struggle they go through on the day to day basis. I do not treat this as an Illegal group/Faction.

I give everyone permission to post here in relevancy to drug addiction and the struggles with drug addiction that their character faces.  https://discord.gg/ZmVasfjJ

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