witchlinblue
01-23-2006, 11:54 PM
Just Another Skid Row Story
Losing a Friend to the Demon 'Crack'
by Janice Wood
L.A. Downtown News
There are people on Skid Row who are okay there. They like their drugs and their alcohol. They know how to party like there's no tomorrow. I don't mean to say they're happy to be there, just that they're okay. They find a way to belong, to be comfortable there. And then some are just surviving, avoiding the predators and the despair and the seeming hopelessness. Waiting for a chance to escape.
But there are some who are terrified. Terrified of what their presence on Skid Row means. Some of them are running away from some kind of demon and others are running to a demon, the kind of demon you can buy on the Row. Running to heroin and crack and meth, all the demons that are sold openly there right on the street. They don't want to be there but they can't stay away.
Read whole article (http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2006/01/23/news/opinion/edit03.txt)
Losing a Friend to the Demon 'Crack'
by Janice Wood
L.A. Downtown News
There are people on Skid Row who are okay there. They like their drugs and their alcohol. They know how to party like there's no tomorrow. I don't mean to say they're happy to be there, just that they're okay. They find a way to belong, to be comfortable there. And then some are just surviving, avoiding the predators and the despair and the seeming hopelessness. Waiting for a chance to escape.
But there are some who are terrified. Terrified of what their presence on Skid Row means. Some of them are running away from some kind of demon and others are running to a demon, the kind of demon you can buy on the Row. Running to heroin and crack and meth, all the demons that are sold openly there right on the street. They don't want to be there but they can't stay away.
Read whole article (http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2006/01/23/news/opinion/edit03.txt)