Last May the inhabitants of Chungungo opened their water taps and watched in astonishment as clear, crystalline liquid flowed out. We were quite sceptical at first, says an elderly, radiant woman. Now the people of the town are more optimistic about their future. They know that the fog, unlike Bethlehem Steel, will never leave them. Addiction leads to desperation.
Desperation leads to crime.
People who use drugs are doomed to failure. These are the messages behind the official anti-drugs campaigns. Yet there is growing evidence that such campaigns don t work because they are not true. Most startling is the relationship between drugs and wages. The survey was first done in 1984 and repeated in 1989 to the same group of people, with an average age of 23 and then 27.