ABSTRACT
Along with the growth of availability, the areas of consumption extended beyond the disappointed rebels and decadent aesthetes to touch the suburbs, the spots of discomfort and social alienation that the opulent society attempted in vain to hide or forget. On the threshold of the 1980s, the phenomenon of drug addiction was already a cause for social alarm, producing thousands of corpses every year and triggering a heavy increase in juvenile delinquency, while the international drug trafficking was kept firmly in the hands of powerful, many-branched criminal organizations.4
