Monday, December 31, 2012

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Crack In Brazil: Authorities Debate Treatment Options For Crack Epidemic (PHOTOS)

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Crack In Brazil: Authorities Debate Treatment Options For Crack Epidemic (PHOTOS)
Dec 31st 2012, 16:42

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Bobo has a method: Cocaine gets him through the day, when he cruises with a wheelbarrow around a slum on Rio's west side, sorting through trash for recyclables to sell. At night, he turns the day's profit into crack.

"Sometimes I don't sleep at all; I'm up 24 hours," says Bobo, a former soldier who doesn't use his given name for safety reasons. "I work to support my addiction, but I only use crack at night. That drug takes my mind away. I lose all notion of what I'm doing."


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