Fighting drugs, addiction -with classical music

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Fighting drugs, addiction -with classical music: "In one of the world's deadliest cities, where drug gangs murder a dozen people a day, a former heroin addict is changing lives with violins and trumpets rather than assault rifles.
Alma Rosa Gonzalez is helping poor children learn classical music and give them an outlet that might stop them falling prey to the gangsters who are terrorizing this city of about 1.5 million on the Texas border.
'Just to see a gang member bringing his child to school carrying an instrument means the kid's life has changed, he won't be the same as his father,' said Gonzalez, a social worker who started the youth orchestra program in 2005."

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