The Blue Plague : Inside Scotland's Drug Epidemic

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• LA

  @latchmere100 · 3 years ago

  The sad reality is that no matter how much drugs you take, you can never escape reality.

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• ON

  @onslowtowers · 3 years ago

  Connor who appears around the 4 minute mark is still on the streets by day but looking a hell of lot healthier than he does here for anyone wondering about him - top bloke & extremely intelligent

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• PH

  @phatheffer3439 · 3 years ago

  I was a valium addict for many years and when I finally decided to go to rehab to get clean it was 9 months of pure hell.<br>Out of all the pharmaceuticals on the planet valium / benzos are one of the hardest beasts to kick.<br>The mental / physical / spiritual withdrawal is hell on earth.<br>I&apos;m amazed I didn&apos;t die simply from getting clean.

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• JA

  @jackedkerouac4414 · 3 years ago

  A friend I went to school with moved back to Scotland and it&apos;s sad talking to him. He&apos;s unemployed always drunk and high living off his mom even though he&apos;s a super talented product designer. He always talks about moving but it&apos;s a pipe dream - quite literally.

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• AS

  @AsbestosGoblin69 · 3 years ago (edited)

  For anyone who doesn&apos;t know, David Harper is himself an ex addict. &nbsp;He at one time used to sleep rough in a high rise, this was obviously many years ago and he has come a long way since then but these are the people who have the best understanding of how to help addicts because they have been there &amp; lived the lifestyle themselves. &nbsp;Qualifications are all well and good but nothing beats experience when you are trying to connect with drug addicts to help them. &nbsp;I know because I was one myself just as David was.

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• CO

  @cook9648 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Around 2018/19 I was heavily addicted to street Vallium. I went to my GP with all the empty blister packs and he advised me I was on a suicide mission as I was taking Vallium produced in many different countries and it was only a matter of time before I got a bad pack. <br><br>He put me on a reduction program with the NHS and I was slowly taken off them via reducing my prescription. It worked for me but imagine many people would abuse it.

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• MA

  @mahendraa98 · 3 years ago

  <b>&quot;I</b> <b>like</b> <b>to</b> <b>live</b> <b>in</b> <b>a</b> <b>society</b> <b>where</b> <b>there&apos;s</b> <b>always</b> <b>hope...&quot;</b>

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• FR

  @FreddieCollins-ul5ec · 8 months ago

  David Harper is a really kind and compassionate man. I was addicted to heroin and street valium. He went out of his way to help me even when I was very difficult to work with. It&apos;s amazing how one persons kindness can have such a massive impact on another&apos;s life.

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• AP

  @Aphex51 · 3 years ago

  Ok I grew up in the Highlands in the 90s and have had brushes with drugs. The problem for me as a young man was there was absolutely nothing to do. No cinema, no pool club, no sports. The only thing people did was go the pub. Now drinking doesn&apos;t always lead to stronger stuff but in my case it did. As it was the only place to go and socialise you would fall in with the wrong people and the rest is history. Thankfully I managed to go in a different direction in my 20s but I can easily see how people fall into a lifetime of drugs.

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• MO

  @moinhalle · 5 months ago

  Before they were banned in 2016 you could order 300 etizolam from India for £40. It was totally legal as well

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• CH

  @chandler-chandlerr · 3 months ago

  Good documantary ! Finally someone explaining it good how a real od works . Its not like 10 mg valium with 150 mg pregalabine which will kill you . But over 100 mg &nbsp;diazepam with like 900 mg of pregalabine and on top of that a strong opioide like heroine/methadone + vulnarablity/low health conditions .

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• GI

  @giatasha2181 · 3 years ago

  When fentanyl hits the mess is gonna be awful

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