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Article: Close-up: cocaine.(Heads Up Real News About Drugs And Your Body)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- October 13, 2003
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Big White Lies
At first, cocaine made Miguel feel powerful. But the drug's promises turned out to be lies.
If you'd met Miguel Flores when he was in junior high school, you'd have met a young man who listened to his mother and did well in school. If you'd met him in high school, you'd have met a different person--a teenager who cut classes and got left back, a son who screamed obscenities at his mom. Drugs changed him.
When we talked to Miguel, he was a resident at Odyssey House, a drug treatment program in New York City's East Village. Now 19, he told Scholastic how he got there.
When Miguel started high school in Brooklyn, New York, ...