When cocaine use reaches every level of our society. when the number of cocaine addicts increases by onethird in 1 year. when the supply of cocaine and heroin becomes so extensive the price drops 60 percent in 1 year. when drugrelated murders increase 50 percent in 1 year. when the increased purity level of the cocaine on the streets causes strokes and seizures in its unsuspecting young users. it is time to put a stop to it. Personal histories of those whose lives were devastated by drugs are included in the first of this series of articles on drug abuse. To see a young man ruin a promising career on Wall Street and decimate his savings because of cocaine. to see a young woman fall victim to cocaine addiction thereby losing her job and her husband. to see a ghettoescapee turn to crime to feed his narcotics addition. to see a young immigrant break his familys heart by dropping out of school and turning to crime to support his need for drugs. it is time to put a stop to it. Mr. President. the amount and accessibility of cocaine and heroin in this country have increased to such an extent that lawenforcement officials have virtually ceased largescale investigations into marijuana trafficking to turn their attention to these more dangerous drugs.
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