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adults in this County, just like in any m^jor , city, small town or rural village, who see school kids as a captured market for their wares. And their wares are cocaine, - methamphetamines, heroin, and the "club" VV drugs like ecstasy, Vince didn't hear the f* rumor that the drugs were coming from fr. some fifty-something guy who lives in one of the hollows, or from a smack-user, or from a guy who works in a local restaurant.
Vince did not know, at the time, that Eddie and his friends had long ago found a ,n supplier of LSD and ecstasy and cocaine. Or - that they had tried them all. Or that they Ji had decided that ecstasy was their favorite. ‘Z Or that they had, only on occasion, taken a few dollars from a parent's wallet, or busted “ into a store to collect some saleable items to finance more ecstasy purchases.
Vince did not know either that ecstasy is 1Z likely to cause long-term damage to seritonin-producing neurons in the brain, the consequences of which could likely be behavioral and cognitive dysfunction, as well as memory impairment.
Vince knows now. Eddie told him just *' the other day that he and his friends were -. ecstasy users, and it didn't seem like Eddie was embarrassed to reveal that information. It was just another drug after all. And *f, Vince had allowed him to use marijuana—; why not ecstasy? All the kids do it.
Vince has a problem. It's Eddie, and it's ** ecstasy, and it's some dealer who wants to murder his child—his only child, and who H; wants to do it slowly, and for only the few dollars that he'll get for the drugs that . Eddie buys. Vince doesn't know where to go, ’ll whom to turn to, what to do to make certain \v that his sweet kid survives.
Next time: Some options.
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