Been going to New Mexico for many years and over that time have developed allot of friends. What they tell us about the damage drugs and alcohol have done to the small town life in that state is very sad. Several of my friends are Elders on the Apache Reservation outside Ruidoso and they’ve given up on keeping Heroin off the Res. It’s destroying their youth!
I remember 1962 Carlsbad NM when several high school kids collapsed at the “sock hop” dance at the armory. They were high on “pep pills”.
Even where I live now, the Ozarks, one of the most respected men in town (now deceased) used to sell “pep pills” to the local kids, Arrested, but soon back in his store front business. When he died the funeral home could not contain all the local citizens showing their respect. Almost all of the Chamber of Commerce was there.