Listen with RealPlayer . There is a tony suburb of Washington, also called Vienna, with sheltered homes, high walls topped with security cameras, and private guards. Foxwoods rises like a mirage out of the Connecticut forests. People from New York or Boston, traveling through scattered villages, past fields and woods, do not expect a monumental, ultramodern building complex in this rural area.
Traffic lights direct the flow of vehicles into the asphalt desert of the parking lots.
Some 40,000 visitors come to Foxwoods on a normal weekday, nearly twice that many on weekends and holidays. In recent days, the world has been shaken. The most prosperous part of the richest country in the world has found itself facing an unprecedented energy crisis. This was the beginning of a journey. America has waged war on drugs for 30 years, but it is only now that Hollywood, for so long preferring either to romanticize or condemn the issue, is tackling the subject for the vast, devastating problem it is.