Nice

Nice writing

Wow that's very insightful scene...you should write a book....but more so it's very insightful.....and alarming the crack epidemic in the town back then. I bet Ricky was cute.....I lost my looks due to using.....did Ricky keep his?

It's just one of many ways. In real life. People are having sex to pay their light bill, rent and a variety of things. Not to mention, Once the opioid epidemic took off. People started looking at things in a different light. I mean wasn't there an HIV epidemic in Indiana due to the opioids.

Are Young HIV+ Crack Heads A One Man HIV Epidemic? ( Part 2)

Truth is Ricky used to be a dealer and a player, but 3 years ago he was diagnosed with HIV. At the time, there was a national hysteria that HIV=AIDS=Death. Ricky’s best friend advised him to smoke some crack. He agreed and he began smoking crack everyday. Now he’s a crackhead, his life is focused on smoking crack. “It blew me away,” he says, rapping at ‘crack speed’. “I never thought it could happen to me!” It does happen. In the United States, a study involving inner-city young adults showed that smoking of crack cocaine was associated with HIV infection.

Crack customers continue to stop in front of Ricky, more than one at a time and after he asks them “wassup?” 2, 4, or 5, they answer and Ricky tells them where to go to cop the drugs. “It’s business,” Ricky says. Two pretty Latino women who Ricky says ‘are lovers’, ask for 2. Ricky tells me afterward that the women will sex anybody for a hit of crack. Then, a skinny, middle aged man in a torn tee-shirt is being pulled along by a 15 year old black teenager. “Nigga got AIDS,” says Ricky, “but he hits more skins than ‘Nushawn Williams!” Williams Is the young man, who back in the day, was accused of knowingly infecting dozens of young women with HIV. Women were scared to death and NYC newspapers called him a ‘murderer, psycho, and sexual killer. Williams may be all those things. The unspoken and far more disturbing issue is whether or not Williams represents other young black and Latino men who are knowingly spreading HIV to unsuspecting young women! Is alcohol and/or drugs pushing young women into the open arms of HIV+ older men?

A young black hooker with thick makeup on her face and wearing a fake fur coat, asks Ricky if he wants to party! Rick says “Let’s get it on!” The hooker says, “Meet you right here at 5 p.m.” “And Ya know that, baby” Ricky says.
According to CDC, in 2021, among males, most HIV infections were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact (81%). Among females, most HIV infections were attributed to heterosexual contact (82%). I ask Ricky if he was concerned about putting women at risk for HIV? “I’m as concerned about it as I am a UFO landing right here!” A loud car horn interrupts me before I can say anything. It’s a new, black BMW with music blasting from its open window. Someone yells from a tinted window, “ Ricky. Let’s go!” Ricky says to me while running toward the car, “that’s my boss. See ya later cat daddy!” He jumps into the BM and they speed off into the night.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.