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Posted on Wednesday, 10.15.08

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LOS ANGELES TIMES

Mexico grapples with drug addiction

When the dope thugs beat him with a pistol, Rodrigo Sonck decided enough was enough. A month and a half later, Sonck was cloistered in a treatment clinic in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, relating a tale of addiction that is increasingly familiar as growing numbers of Mexicans sample the drugs that once flowed through their country untouched.
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