Old Heartland Industrial Cities Face Big Drug Problems
January 18th, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
The decline of the steel industry and the former U.S. industrial heartland — now known as the Rust Belt — has left behind poverty, unemployment, hopelessness and drug abuse, the Associated Press reported Jan. 16.
In towns like Aliquippa, Pa., violent drug gangs inhabit a landscape dotted with decaying brick factories. In 10 of 14 Rust Belt cities studied, drug arrests have more than doubled in the past 15 to 20 years.
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