Drug Deaths In Scotland

[MissTerious2]

Just why is this happening?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-64785030

I admit know very little about Scotland, its politics, etc. But those are shocking statistics.

[wolf63]

I agree with most of what AH says, but his answer is about the general issue with drugs.

i don't know why there are m any more drugs related deaths in Scotland. I don't think that there are more addicts than elsewhere.

Maybe the geography of the country and the distance from medical assistance?

I don't know if our police carry anti-overdose injectors.

Maybe the addicts freeze to death or drown due to the awful weather.

I don't know.

[MissTerious2]

Andys post is no different to posts I have seen in this section about those who are rich and have attended Eaton etc. Noone ever suggests they should be removed. Stereotyping is wrong, but we all do it.

[barry1010]

It is true that Glasgow did not recover as well as it could have done after the devastation of bombings during WWII, it is fair to say due in part to lack of government investment. Shipbuilding and other industries went in to severe decline leading to mass unemployment of people already living on the edge.
Perhaps this contributed to drug problems that intensified 30 years ago, it certainly didn't help.

[wolf63]

Barry, I think that Glasgow is a major part of the problem. Or am I stereotyping Glaswegians?

[MissTerious2]

Interesting Barry, could well have contributed.

My grandfather worked in the Glasgow shipyards during WW1. Went up with his new wife as a young man during the 30s recession. They lived in a couple of rooms in the Gorbals. He didn't have to go to war because of his essential work as an engineer. I'm off topic now!

[MissTerious2]

Wolf I think most of us think of Glasgow as being dreadful place. I've never been there. Just experienced some very uncouth construction workers from the area! Perhaps they were all on drugs!!

[naomi24]

AH dislikes alcohol use. In my opinion it shouldn’t be compared to class A drugs.

RH, I don’t understand why poverty is blamed for drug abuse. As far as I’m aware drugs are an expensive habit.

[Redhelen72]

As explained by another user earlier Naomi - the country was flooded by cheap drugs.

[naomi24]

Yea, I saw that. Was it just Scotland?

[Redhelen72]

The OP is about Scotland.
Are you not picking?

[perseverer]

15.37

As a Glaswegian, can I object to that. I am totally couth.

[perseverer]

....but can't read, it was 15.47

[MissTerious2]

Are you a construction worker? ;0)

[perseverer]

Only Lego with the grandchildren

[MissTerious2]

Well then you are couth!

[ZebuSanctuary]

barry >15.17

Hear, hear!

[andy-hughes]

YMB - // AH, you seriously think Class A are worse than alcohol? //

No, the exact opposite, I think alcohol is worse than Class A.

It's vastly more widespread, it has, across the world, millions more addicts, it causes antisocial behaviour, violence, crime, countless road deaths, and its cultural acceptance means there is no will to ban it in the way that people want to ban Class A, for similar reasons, albeit on a manifestly smaller scale.

Just out of interest do you
a) Partake of alcohol
b) Partake of Heroine or Meth or anything (or would you if it was legal)?

Neither, and no, I wouldn't. I have never needed artificial stimulants to alter my mood to make me relax in company.

[andy-hughes]

Redhelen - //
I think AH last comment was nothing beyond ignorant! //

Then I am delighted to be educated!

I have offered a solution, and my reasons for it.

How about you do the same?

And it will obviously need to be a different solution to the current 'War On Drugs', since I assume I can take your agreement that it manifestly fails to work on any level whatsoever.

[andy-hughes]

Contrary to an earlier poster presuming, incorrectly as usual, to offer my opinion on alcohol -

I don't 'dislike alcohol', I merely dislike the negative effect it has on the world I live in, which is not the same thing.

[andy-hughes]

Correction - I don't 'dislike alcohol use' as confirmed above.