Scotland: Why are so many people dying from drug use?

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Sky News' Connor Gillies looks at deaths from illegal drug use in Scotland, where people are 15 times more likely to die from narcotics use in deprived areas.
Analysis from Sky's Data and Forensics shows that almost four times as many people die in Scotland compared to the rest of Great Britain, with other European countries trailing behind.
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@user-vn8sn9qn6j 11 месяцев назад

for the past 50 years drugs have been a problem in Scotland, I have never used any illegal drug because it would have got in the way of my drinking, had my last drink on 17/09/2017, if alcohol was invented today it would be a Class "A" Drug. Some of my friends have asked me what is the hardest thing I have ever done so I thought about it for a wee while, I said well I have hiked the West Highland Way self sufficient and at speed to break the record, same with The Pennine Way, both were very hard, really hard, hiked over The Himalayas & The Rockies, ran half marathons in competitions with my best time 1Hr 22Mins 26Secs, one of the hardest runs I have ever done, never ever beat that time again, but the hardest thing I have ever done was to STOP DRINKING, I started late in life at 33 but I got hook very easily and it ruined me. (One Day At A Time) now 60 years old and Sober HELPING OTHERS.

@harrisfrankou2368 11 месяцев назад

34 months

@davinastanton3865 11 месяцев назад

Congratulations for being clean.

@Link2TQ84 9 месяцев назад

Picked my 3 years keyring up this week. Wee do recover 🙏

@thewalkingbear6677 9 месяцев назад

@@Link2TQ84 nice one!

@Stop-All-War 6 месяцев назад

🐝 💪 👏🏼

@stevebaylis7973 11 месяцев назад

Because life for the poorest in this country isn't worth anything so its a escape from the terrible island this has become

@harriethare4019 11 месяцев назад

Yep!

@fairy12324 2 месяца назад

100%

@StevenCovey-ct3sx 11 месяцев назад

The social worker at the end trashed the drug free re-hab! No surprise. They want people using drugs. It’s job security.

@jaylondon283 5 месяцев назад

I didn’t think he trashed it ?

@yilz123 11 месяцев назад

My heart goes out to all sufferers. None of them wants to be in this situation

@jenniferjackson9375 11 месяцев назад

But they are.. I’m not in that situation.. it’s all about choices

@JP94 11 месяцев назад

Their own fault, they aint sufferers

@cherobinson6371 11 месяцев назад

But it’s ok to be a alcoholic? Cause alcoholism is a huge huge issue in Scotland

@drama772 11 месяцев назад

Many of them knew exactly what they were getting into, but went ahead anyway. Personally, I call it weakness. And I have absolutely no sympathy.

@niallcnoc9646 11 месяцев назад

Some really nasty people in the comments who lack empathy and compassion. Before casting judgement maybe some research into addiction would help ye be more humane.

@GIBBO4182 11 месяцев назад

Probably England’s fault, somehow!

@New-ye2fl 11 месяцев назад

it’s not even Englands fault for Englands problems according to our media 😂

@loredanatagliaferri5339 11 месяцев назад

Somehow?? How?

@JohnDoe-lx3dt 11 месяцев назад

Nae england as a whole but Westminster for sure. There’s no money up here and there’s nothing for the majority to aim for, drugs are the easy answer for a lot of people.

@foreignofficeclub5815 11 месяцев назад

Actually that is accurate

@bellamia5899 11 месяцев назад

The Glasgow woman's project has existed for decades all they have did is change their drug policy. No mention of the closure of the drug rehab around the corner in the James Shields project. Council and government doesn't give a monkeys about addicts or addiction. They only care about the financial cost implications and not in human life terms.

@JT-wo4fs 11 месяцев назад

Coz were all dead on inside

@knight20102 11 месяцев назад

I used to mess about there at these places as a teenager in Dundee. Its bizarre and surreal that's its a junkie den now. The emergency services roar up and down my street all day long to get to that part of Dundee.

@contorta960 11 месяцев назад

Because life is really depressing for too many people. That and legislation makes the whole thing a lot more dangerous than it needs to be.

@Drizzle600 11 месяцев назад

But yet, the SNP will still be voted in power by the folks who couldn’t care less!!! never has the words wake up been more apparent!

@mfslots 11 месяцев назад

@@Drizzle600 its the system labour tory whoever the situation at present would be the same this about an unfit system and life and death one of which a single politician nor party can take credit for

@Madsstuff 10 месяцев назад

TREAT. DON'T PUNISH. END THE WAR ON DRUGS!

@user-wg3kj7uy7f 11 месяцев назад

The fact is that a lot of rich people in Scotland (most of whom may be in positions of influence eg in Edinburgh) are very removed from the reality of those at the bottom and do not give a damn to know.

@jbjaguar2717 2 месяца назад

I think that's inaccurate. The ruling party in Edinburgh are well aware of Scotland's drug problem and they genuinely care about fixing it. But it's not an easy problem to solve. It requires tackling entrenched issues with education, mental health, welfare, housing, urban planning, culture, and an inadequate economic structure. Also, it's uncomfortable for many people to talk about, but a big part of the problem is how accepting Scotland is towards drugs. We need to increase the stigma attached to the substances whilst decreasing the stigma attached to addicts themselves - the opposite of the current situation, where addicts are seen as losers but drugs in general are seen as cool and desirable. We also should understand and combat the harmful influences of China, Iran and America, from where most of these drugs (or their chemical components) originate.

@julianshepherd2038 11 месяцев назад

Same reasons alchol has always been a problem in Scotland.

@larrygerry985 11 месяцев назад

Weather?

@CastleLager-lf5eu 11 месяцев назад

Loch Ness monster?

@kmay4963 11 месяцев назад

Bagpipes?

@werewolfcountry 11 месяцев назад

It's not weather, they have similar weather to Scandinavia. @@larrygerry985

@beepboop9464 11 месяцев назад

Haggis?

@mikedixon9089 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely gobsmacked I’ve worked in Dundee many times when coming north of the border found the people and place lovely admittedly it was a good few years ago how times have changed 😢

@paddymeboy 11 месяцев назад

It's not that big a mystery really: it's a bog hole, and also there's no sunlight!

@garrysmith5562 9 месяцев назад

Its still the same. Addiction is everywhere.

@ladymuck22 4 дня назад

There's still a lot of nice places and people in Dundee.

@autumnangel3001 11 месяцев назад

Ps. The quality and strength of the drugs is more deadly these days…

@CorporateMediaIsTheEnemyWithin 11 месяцев назад

My heart goes out to them, I hope fentanyl doesn’t reach those shores

@UpinsmokeXVI 11 месяцев назад

Fentanyl is already in the uk and it’s getting really bad

@susanelliott2287 9 месяцев назад

@ CensoredSheepChannel.I Fentanyl has been in England and SCotland for years.

@greenbucky 11 месяцев назад

Got an advert for whiskey after this video, harmful addictions like drinking and smoking should also be targeted with a ban of advertising. Too many people use it as a pathway to drugs in Scotland.

@MrMarkhall1 11 месяцев назад

Maybe they should reopen the ship yards? Build new ones?

@billyhawkins9273 4 месяца назад

1. The UK is very depressing 2. The weather is very depressing 3. The cost of living goes up way higher than wages 4. There is more control than most countries 5. Employers want people to be like robots 6. The culture is bad due to mass immigration over the last 30 years 7. Many more reasons I'm so glad I left the UK and I'm 10/10 happy now 🇹🇭 🙂

@jda7499 11 месяцев назад

This reminded me of Gorbals Glasgow of early 90s. As a foreign Student at Glasgow for 4 years I feel so sad to Scotland public issues. Such a lovely country and always in my heart, some of my best times in life at Glasgow. Dundee in 1990s was a postcard in Summer months. I hope the government steps in. My best wishes

@HissyMcHissyfit 11 месяцев назад

Our government is a massive part of the problem. They keep cutting funding to services while blaming 'an ageing drug user population coming to an inevitable end' to cover for the incremental increase of drug related deaths. They simply do not care. Politicians are the lowest form of humanity.

@eh1702 11 месяцев назад

The government DID step in. They brought a bill t9 decriminalise addiction and teat it as a health issue. Westminster overturned it. The SG turned a blind eye to the clean-needle exchanges and vans where people could inject safely; the Tories in London instructed the Tories in Scotland to insist that the law is applied to the letter and banned the clean needle vans - hence the upsurge in amputations and deaths. The hostel here which the woman says saved her life - these hostels are next to be targeted by England’s politicians.

@robbyjackson5103 11 месяцев назад

@@eh1702 Always the tories fault lol

@williampotato1221 11 месяцев назад

@eh1702 15yr of utter incompetence snp rule has ruined Scotland pal. Whilst Scotland is getting ruined via snp scorched earth policy, their politicians have been feathering their nests to the tune of 14mil in only 3yrs.. Given they have been in power for 15yr, do math & wake n the smell the coffee ☕.

@robinsss 10 месяцев назад

@@eh1702Scotland should declare independence so the gov't can control it's own policies

@einseitig3391 11 месяцев назад

Britain is a desperate place at the moment. It is good those north of the border can now access the same treatment as those south.

@jjcale1976 11 месяцев назад

The worst drugs, because they are legal and deadly, are alcohol and tobacco.

@barneymagee3285 11 месяцев назад

Years of snp rule has really helped Scotland..

@halfbakedproductions7887 11 месяцев назад

Good news is the wheel nuts on the SNP bandwagon are slowly coming undone. I've never seen them in so much disarray and they are making a lot of the same mistakes Labour did in 2007. It's not healthy and not good for anyone for the same outfit to be in office for so long. Humza will come under fire if the SNP underwhelm at upcoming elections.

@acewhisper38272 11 месяцев назад

@@britnatzaredemocracydenier5922yes while Scotland gave free doctor's visits the snp was pretty much corrupt.

@eh1702 11 месяцев назад

The SNP built new hospitals for all the cities. The parliament - YOUR party too - voted to trat addiction as a health issue instead of criminalising it - Westminster overturned that. And even insisted on banning the clean-needle vans.

@KM-pq7sr 11 месяцев назад

@@eh1702 So how come there are clean needle vans operating around Glasgow and other cities? I think the police were concerned it would encourage more drugs use but they are allowing those vans now. I've seen them.

@leeriches8841 11 месяцев назад

@@eh1702 where's the ferries the islands were promised?

@lolsaXx 11 месяцев назад

Despair and lonliness. Thats why.

@barneymagee3285 11 месяцев назад

Rife among Celtic supporters….

@johnmccaughey2722 11 месяцев назад

@@barneymagee3285celtic are the dominant team these days lol. And no I am not a celtic fan

@silvasun5326 11 месяцев назад

I don’t think I heard one reference to Opioid Substitution Treatment in this story. A bit strange given that it is regarded as the most effective modal of care/recovery…a broad range of substances are mentioned…stimulants etc…abstinence based approaches get a mention…it seems a conspicuous omission for a story like this.

@thecolourwhiteproductions3391 11 месяцев назад

They don't call it scumdee for nothing. Dundee used to be the teenage underage pregnancy capital too. It's a shame cause it's actually a cool city. The new museum and ship are a great visit but it seems it's always been quite troubled.

@beachfairy 11 месяцев назад

Gee I dunno sky news maybe it's the depressing state of everything and struggling to afford to survive let alone thrive whilst getting zero help for mental and physical health. The UK is a shambles.

@Bungle-UK 11 месяцев назад

So why is the issue four times worse in Scotland than England? Nothing to do with the UK as a whole.

@tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817 11 месяцев назад

. . . and oh the hypocrisy regarding drugs when every Friday and Saturday weekend people are staggering around like Neanderthals , ranked up on copious amounts of liquid poison* *government approved & endorsed.

@beachfairy 11 месяцев назад

@MAT-UK1978 'Bills and legislation The classification and control of ‘controlled drugs’ in the United Kingdom is reserved to the UK Government.' Took me 2 minutes to look it up dude

@mmcc5846 11 месяцев назад

@@Bungle-UKEngland and the UK are the cause

@zoundsic 11 месяцев назад

Drug deaths are falling in Scotland, so not as many as used to be, OD's are becoming less prevalent with younger people and average age of those dying is getter older.

@HogwartsBasement 11 месяцев назад

All police officers now carry naloxone. That bound to help it too seeing they are first there before the ambulance usually

@davinastanton3865 11 месяцев назад

@@HogwartsBasement Yes they do.

@elchoppo1160 11 месяцев назад

"....1 dealer suggesting our camera leave immediately..." Really ? Why not include the footage in the report ? Oh, that's right - cos it never happened !

@garthreid7114 11 месяцев назад

Dundee, and every major city in Scotland has a drug problem. What's new?

@garthreid7114 11 месяцев назад

With pause on, it's simple, there are always statistics to demonise the pleasures of life.

@belltond1527 11 месяцев назад

It’s because of the SNP incompetence

@seanmacleod1724 10 месяцев назад

Recovery Walk 2023 has just happened in Greenock and yet there is nothing online about this event. Poignant and also uplifting it was a celebration of recovery achieved and a chance to remember those lost to this scourge. Why can I find NOTHING relating to this subject from STV....We even had an MSP in attendance.

@Sharon-marie 11 месяцев назад

It was Glasgow that was named the worst place for drug deaths for the last few years

@ConnorFerguson-hv4sg 11 месяцев назад

Dundee had the highest drug deaths in Europe

@Grailz1 8 месяцев назад

Was it no west Dunbartonshire

@Kat-mu8wq 6 месяцев назад

It's also now overtaken Glasgow as the most dangerous city.. Ironically it also has the most foreign people 😂

@AlexOmelyanyuk106 12 часов назад

Yes it has been for the past years

@viharchampa8829 11 месяцев назад

*This Dope, these days, is a whole lot stronger* *than it ever was.* *People that use it,* *don't have any idea of what they're taking.* *There's Billions in this so-called street drug* *Business.* *Drugs, lead an* *individual, to A lonely* *crooked dark alley,* *down a dirty broken* *street, full of bloody* *fiends, Who really* *don't care about who* *buys from them.* *To a dealer, it's a* *transaction.* *Nothing personal.* *In my opinion,* *Too many individuals* *Have painful reality's* *Doing chemicals is an escape from reality.* *When criminal* *element is missing,* *This thing being taxed tested and regulated.* *Then there would* *probably be fewer* *deaths ...* 🤔

@patrickpowers5995 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely

@skycat777u.k5 11 месяцев назад

👏💯

@user-ne4nk4pj2m 3 месяца назад

👏 well said mate

@colinevans39 11 месяцев назад

Because stress and poverty and social breakdown people some just want to get away from crap reality of poor quality of life and drugs for some give them this 😤🙄🙄

@opengrapefruit1534 11 месяцев назад

I was in Edinburgh as a tourist for a week this year. It was very nice and a great city. I didn't see much of any junkies or drugs. But I'm not interested in drugs so it wasn't something I noticed.

@kevino4372 11 месяцев назад

Dundee

@margsomerville21 4 месяца назад

Must have been walking about Edinburgh with eyes closed tight

@wanbawmcgraw3022 4 дня назад

cool story

@lamestreammedia3154 11 месяцев назад

Got to hand it to sky News. Many videos they have a question in the title only to turn comments off😊

@eh1702 11 месяцев назад

Well, this one is to slag the Scottish parliament, government and public, so of course they left it open.

@threeloins6794 11 месяцев назад

exactly @@eh1702

@andrewdoug8084 11 месяцев назад

Good for those that sell .

@amfearliathmor9747 11 месяцев назад

The Local SNP Member of Parliament lives in a castle outside Dundee well away from his constituents and drives an Aston Martin. No one saw him for about 2 years during the Rockefeller Locksteps. Much like Boris is partial to some of the Columbian Marching Powder. The fish rots from the head down.

@lsnowy7758 11 месяцев назад

Typical narrow brained linking of SNP with another party. SNP is in government and it alone is responsible!!

@bam-skater 11 месяцев назад

@@lsnowy7758 So why doesn't the SNP decriminalise the possession of drugs, seems to have worked reasonably well in Portugal!

@elizabethtait2469 11 месяцев назад

. @bam-skater have tried UK government overturned it

@harrycalla 10 месяцев назад

Aye blame others 🤡

@thigearlatha 10 месяцев назад

@@lsnowy7758Westminster is in charge of drug policy, that's a fact. Every time The SNP try to address the situation but Westminster vetoes it. Another clueless 🤡

@user-nl4jo5xf3l 11 месяцев назад

There is probably nothing to do up there- it’s that boring. Government needs to step in

@brandycat8513 11 месяцев назад

Is ANYONE asking WHY are they turning to drugs? Obviously as pain relief, to numb a psychological pain or trauma. Cant be down to poverty, as the "experts" say here. Neither can "access to treatment". THis film doesnt even mention access to psychotherapy/ talking therapies. I'm not an "expert" lol SNP minister, but all the local services seem to offer are overdose meds. " See the pain, not the addiction" - DR Gabor Matte

@EpicTutorialTips 10 месяцев назад

Because it's everywhere in Scotland. Literally everywhere. The Police haven't bothered to tackle it for years and years, so it's been a free run on the entire country to use it as a dumping ground. Comes over in the boats from South America, into Ireland, then into Scotland. They haul it in on the fishing boats, and nobody checks them so it's very easy to do. And yes, there's no such thing as recovery services in Scotland. All the money for that was stripped away in the early 2010s because the money was redistributed and put towards the SNP independence campaign leading up to the referendum in 2014. Back then Salmon was SNP leader and Sturgeon was Health Minister, but nobody battered an eye lid because the truth is people aren't really going to notice or give a damn about a bunch of addicts losing access to recovery treatment. When the funding for all of that was stripped away, there was nothing to replace it, so that's when the numbers started creeping up.

@nakhan4132 11 месяцев назад

Poverty, lack of opportunities, family break downs, lack of God consciousness leades people to loose hope and purpose to live

@martinwebb1681 11 месяцев назад

Yes true, but anyone with half a brain would understand taking drugs is only going to make your problems worse.

@hexusmexus6971 11 месяцев назад

My GP tried to prescribe me sanex think that's how it's spelt and fentynl same not sure about the spelling but I refused I said because how bad it is watched a documentary. I suffer from chronic back pain from an acident the issue I found they don't care what they prescribe also they have very little knowledge on how badly addictive these drugs are. The issue is also these big pharma companies invent these drugs to get people hooked on them it's plane out their to see what some of them have done to countries such as America cities like California Chicago the whole poor community was devistated by these and now it's mass produced by China and Mexico drug cartels these big companies should be held responsible. I've seen allot of people loose everything because of it. Not saying the people that take it are not responsible at all but it all starts at the top l.

@KanyeBreast4 11 месяцев назад

It's 'Zanax" and "Fentanyl" hun

@nmmc9096 11 месяцев назад

@@KanyeBreast4it’s Xanax

@user-ne4nk4pj2m 3 месяца назад

Must be lovely being so innocent and shielded but some of us didn't av that luxury growing up

@user-et4zp4lr7t 4 месяца назад

The reason people do not access treatment is that in Scotland if an ambulance turns up the police will also. The user gets criminalised! This is why many will not call ambulance for themselves!

@Ishvires 11 месяцев назад

wait for fentanyl arrival to EU, then we will see most fun

@davidcrawford9241 Месяц назад

And zylazine

@michaelkavanagh5947 11 месяцев назад

No policing, simple.

@3DLL. 11 месяцев назад

a lack of jobs, people got no hope for the future got nothing to do bored out there mind, then we start worrying anxiety stress depression kicks in we take drugs to block the pain we go though, we are human.

@SilverSquirrel 11 месяцев назад

To reduce Scotland's carbon footprint.

@user-cu5gc4qz8p 11 месяцев назад

dont want to die of drugs, dont take drugs... really not complicated.

@mrnice7570 11 месяцев назад

🤡

@ozum6787 11 месяцев назад

Wow man, how does no one think this before😂

@user-cu5gc4qz8p 11 месяцев назад

@@ozum6787 I just have very little sympathy for drug users, they're adults, they know the harm drugs cause to themselves, those around them and society as a whole yet they do it anyway, I don't see why it's supposed to be governments responsibility to coddle and take care of them when thy wont take care of themselves.

@Sunshine22232 11 месяцев назад

I swear to God Scottish bad weather is the blame for this 🤔😔

@lh7325 11 месяцев назад

Not sure about that. There's a lot of sunlight here in Australia but drug use is rampant.

@MustraOrdo 11 месяцев назад

Must be the protestant influence.

@RunPJs 10 месяцев назад

I moved from Greater Manchester to Edinburgh. Not much differemce in the weather actually. Sometimes it can be a bit colder but Edinburgh gets less rain

@blaircorral8158 11 месяцев назад

There should be safe legal recourse to help addicts.

@wynbrown5985 11 месяцев назад

Could be the depressing weather.

@halfbakedproductions7887 11 месяцев назад

I grew up in Scotland and can't cope with the weather there anymore. Earlier this year I left Edinburgh at 9am, it was freezing cold and sideways rain. Got to Norwich by 4pm and there wasn't a cloud in the sky, everyone was in shorts and sunglasses drinking pints by the water etc. Felt like I'd ended up in Spain.

@leeriches8841 11 месяцев назад

@@halfbakedproductions7887 the weather here in Edinburgh is particularly vile, that sharp wind we get coming over the Forth always ruins what was a nice day.

@richardbuchan2932 11 месяцев назад

Because we cant afford to go to pubs so we just take drugs instead

@thesightings222 5 месяцев назад

Ok, so what’s the reason deaths statistics dropped recently?More Naloxone? More rehabs? Less drugs on the streets? Tougher law for possession?

@davyg8864 11 месяцев назад

Know more people that have died of suicide than drugs

@edwardbarnett6571 11 месяцев назад

All the while there are users there will be pushers. Users should be kept in a hospital for a year so the sellers will go away.

@05100bigmac 7 месяцев назад

Stupid gov in this country wants to decriminalise and give people “safe places” to use drugs- thus condoning it ! Cartel love Scotland for this reason !

@michaeljohnson5365 11 месяцев назад

Rab C Nesbit lives there

@user-rm2yf8ld7m 7 месяцев назад

I was in Dundee last year. Scary place

@pragueexpat5106 11 месяцев назад

As someone who can't afford to spend 15 pounds on non-essential stuff like drugs, I don't have an addiction problem..

@user-ne4nk4pj2m 3 месяца назад

None essential lol it's essential when Ur in withdrawal it's the only thing that can make Ur symptoms go away n u can tackle day to day tasks then.

@techtinkerin 11 месяцев назад

Because so many people are taking drugs

@leswatson8563 10 месяцев назад

That okd song by Steppen Wolf... 'The Pusher' comes to mind and the warning contained within. Still I expect the police and the government are all over this? Aren't they??

@niblet112 11 месяцев назад

Experimental jab drug?

@tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817 11 месяцев назад

We don't want to talk about that!

@bluesdoc737 10 месяцев назад

Why is so much air time given to the wasters who have absolutely NO intention of giving up. Give these agencies LESS funding & force them to treat those who really want help. Every drug death saves the NHS, justice system, social services etc billions, money that could be better spent elsewhere.

@e.ok2 11 месяцев назад

Just came to answer the titles question..drugs

@JohnDoe-lx3dt 11 месяцев назад

As a Scot I blame boredom

@SharonMcwilliams78 11 месяцев назад

Goes a bit deeper than that pal 0:19

@lucastaylor2321 11 месяцев назад

Boredom? I can understand social-economic & home environments.. peer pressure, family history, depression and mental illness, etc But boredom is really scraping the barrel !!!! Get a hobby, work more hours or whatever.

@mummyd1990 11 месяцев назад

Nothing to do with depression and addiction then eh,just "boredom"...???

@daveh322 11 месяцев назад

I'm bored. Anyone got any fentanyl?

@antonyward8075 11 месяцев назад

@@alderconesLol 😂

@blaircorral8158 5 месяцев назад

I think it’s been proven that prohibition doesn’t work. The USA had to repeal their ban alcohol.

@TheTechNiShan 11 месяцев назад

Great to see they give support to those who overdose!

@oeilgris 11 месяцев назад

would it help to legalise cannabis and invest money spared more in prevention than in prohibition and drug deal policing?

@jamesirvine9541 11 месяцев назад

Dope isn't how they're dying

@carraw3501 11 месяцев назад

Yes, it should happen. One problem is that cannabis dealers can also be dealing in harder drugs. There are also periods where hash is broken down and mixed with harmful ingredients to make it go further. 9 USA states have it legal and there is a tax on it. Dont know how the tax is used but there is obvious other drug taking and problems it could be used on.

@theprogrammerrolandmc3039 11 месяцев назад

Tell that to Tersa May and Victoria Atkins because they are the reason the UK is one of the largest cannabis exporters in the world.

@florencekimondo 11 месяцев назад

Why is government letting this to go on.

@kishorekannan2630 11 месяцев назад

Politicians getting bribe from drug dealers

@jimmyjones1266 11 месяцев назад

Why not They don't want it on their doorstep

@Bungle-UK 11 месяцев назад

Ask the SNP….it’s not for any better under their control.

@K_j_M 11 месяцев назад

Detracts from the SNPs own issues eh

@leeriches8841 11 месяцев назад

Guarantees them more votes. Like Sturgeon trying to buy our votes and support during the pandemic by posting so many of us free cheques.

@susanelliott2287 9 месяцев назад

One question springs to mind, if these people are so poor, then how do they afford their habit? and if the answer is, by turning to crime, would it not then be better to buy food, and pay rent, bills etc, with the proceeds of said crime?

@Man_fay_the_Bru 11 месяцев назад

2 words, blues,crack

@spinytailed 11 месяцев назад

It's probably better than overdosing on irnbru.. ...

@leo-gg8dt 2 месяца назад

The ex Scottish ministers brother inlaws a drug dealer & his sister works in drugs & alcohol how ironic

@autumnangel3001 11 месяцев назад

Stop charging the earth for treatment then people who aren’t rich could access the help….

@KM-pq7sr 11 месяцев назад

Sitting on benefits bored, lack of ambition, poor educational standards, ingrained culture of substance abuse, and sometimes trauma in childhood. It's a complex issue but the SNP seem to be making things worse not better. Japan has a zero tolerance approach to hard drugs and as a result their drugs death numbers are tiny. Maybe we need to get tough to stop the cycle.

@beepboop9464 11 месяцев назад

America also used to have zero tolerance policy. Didn't work quite the same way

@KM-pq7sr 11 месяцев назад

@@beepboop9464 Drugs deaths have got worse in America, not better. Also the Police are pretty over stretched dealing with all the other ghetto crime. Japan is a safe orderly country with an efficient police force and justice system. The West could learn a lot from Japan.

@eh1702 11 месяцев назад

The SNP brought a bill to decriminalise personal possession so that people could use clean-needle / safe injection vans and centres: the Tories overturned it at Westminster. The hostel here that the woman says saved her life will be targeted next - the Tories are insisting that the police enfoce the letter of the law, which their bosses down in London have refused to let Scotland change. Even though the wholwe parliament here voted for it - including even some of the Tories.

@KM-pq7sr 11 месяцев назад

@@eh1702 I'm not a big fan of the Tories, or Labour, but the SNP are far worse, they are running Scotland into the ground. They are even under police investigation themselves. Their appauling record on drugs deaths and education speaks for it's self and blaming 'The Tories' is not good enough.

@paddymeboy 11 месяцев назад

Well, there's no way the 'woke kings' of the SNP will be doing that.

@nevilebardos5702 11 месяцев назад

People don't understand the upbringing these people have had I've had a tough upbringing nothing compared to being brought up by an addict

@sps6 11 месяцев назад

Pathetic...governments must take action on drug dealers in fact they keep quite

@campbell3711 10 месяцев назад

The people of Scotland don't want to live a life sober under SNP rule Christ that would drive anyone to take drugs😕

@michaelsmyth5877 11 месяцев назад

Gotta be fentynol finally making its impact

@Bakedbeans24341 11 месяцев назад

Trainspotting

@allykhan8594 11 месяцев назад

I pity not drug takers.

@tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, cheers for that.

@MrMarkhall1 11 месяцев назад

Maybe the govt should pump some more money into Scotland, they are always complaining they dont get enough, then maybe they wouldnt want independence.

@TomNook. 11 месяцев назад

its Britain in general tbh

@jkfdkjjd 11 месяцев назад

Pro-choice or anti-drugs one thing's for sure "SCOTLAND'S SURGING DRUG DEATHS" is metal AF!

@therealisation5500 10 месяцев назад

Everyone in Glasgow knows who the main players are and where the cops seem unable to do anything about it time for the Scottish government to ask for help some real help from the intelligence services

@buffi944 11 месяцев назад

It's a corrupt place, it needs to be partitioned into five governments, picks, english, tribal and middle class areas, the problem part of the population need to be taken into care.

@forestflood5338 11 месяцев назад

I mean if I had to live among scottish, I'd overdose myself as well

@martinwebb1681 11 месяцев назад

🤣🤣😂😂... So true,

@XavierAway 3 месяца назад

I can’t help but wonder if it’s those very same progressive drug policies that reduce overdose deaths, that are fuelling the heroine epidemic even more by making it more convenient to use the drug in the first place…

@Pipsicle330 11 месяцев назад

Yet another thing the vile SNP will blame everyone else but themselves for.

@ByddinRhyddidCymru 11 месяцев назад

Tbf if I lived in Dundee I’d probably want a bit of gear to get through it

@astra47420 11 месяцев назад

I used to be in to hard drug. 15 yes cleen sitting in my car having a burger and chips this imagrant came up to the car and try to sell us drugs just smile and send I was the police he turned white he said he had the wrong car and just walked a way not the same it would have been hiddn frome the public not now to easy to get involved 😂

@peace4peaceful 11 месяцев назад

Might help.if drugs are not highlighted as a way for fun in every movie that has a night club scene. I'm also.tired of mental health being blamed for taking drugs. It's usually the other way around. Druggies are 100% anti social. Users and dealers.

@tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817 11 месяцев назад

Including that lovely legal government approved drug Alcohol , yes?

@scottmcneil1150 11 месяцев назад

addiction as a response to Intergenerational trauma caused by occupation of the country by external forces, ie the british

@KM-pq7sr 11 месяцев назад

Oh FFS, Scotland won independence then much later went bankrupt trying to start an empire in Panama, then we had the Union of the Crowns which suited Scotland. We are not 'occupied'.

@SeymourClevage 11 месяцев назад

Natural selection.

@Yengi-cw2ox 3 месяца назад

Goverment being advised by self promoting clowns like SDF spending millions on MAT standards and sending people with no intention to change to rehab at 18 grand a pop. Throwing money straight down the drain then realising 4 years from now that the deaths will have doubled. By all means throw money at it but get real about it. First thing is admitting that 95% of addicts in active addiction have no intention of change. Focus the money on the 5%.

@PCHAMILTON 3 месяца назад

Why are Police Scotland not punishing drug dealers?

@Yengi-cw2ox 3 месяца назад

@@PCHAMILTON they are too busy protecting trans peoples feelings

@michaeljohnson5365 11 месяцев назад

At least 5 dead per day on average from drug overdoses

@tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817 11 месяцев назад

Including the liquid filth?

@StevenCovey-ct3sx 11 месяцев назад

Provide free housing. Allow for drug use in this housing. Provide welfare and free health care. Why would anyone choose to be a drug addict?

@jamesirvine9541 11 месяцев назад

Don't think it's a choice 100 percent of the time

@tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817 11 месяцев назад

Why would anyone choose to drink that bottled liquid Ethanol type crap?

@lindenbutters9396 10 месяцев назад

The big boys on the wealth mountain of drugs trade are left to thrive money talks after all! These dealers in misery should be made to reimburse and compensate their victims!