Rising Ecstasy Use among Upper-Class Teenagers in Brazil
Rising Ecstasy use is drawing a new class of educated young people into the cross hairs of drug enforcement in Brazil,South America’s largest country.
This new class of drug peddlers is a far cry from the heavily armed drug lords and their young, impoverished foot soldiers in the slums, where the Brazilian police send small armies to wage deadly battles against them. Instead, those accused of dealing Ecstasy are often university-educated clubbers in the booming electronic dance music scene, an import from Europe and the United States that is taking South America by storm.
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