UK - Every drugs death is a family tragedy

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The Falkirk Herald

Published Date:
15 September 2010
By Jill Buchanan

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http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/features/Every-drugs-death-is-a.6533399.jp

"THE HUMAN cost of the drugs menace is impossible to put a price on.
What value can be given for children being brought up in squalor, money being spent on illegal substances rather than to put food on the table, chaotic lifestyles and the worst scenario, serious illness or death.

All caused by addiction to drugs and the depressing culture surrounding those trapped in its web.

But look further and you can find communities which have been blighted by cannabis, heroin, cocaine and other drugs being dealt on their doorsteps. "
 
I'm about to get blighted with cannabis. The solution, as always, is legalization. At least that would help.

Also, the article is horribly written. I wish people weren't stupid enough to believe it, but I know that some people are.
 
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Let's be realistic, you guys surely account for way more from a small slice of those 26,000+ drug related deaths in Mexico this year than you do for drug OD's, even with your crazy laws. Imagine how many people have died worldwide since our war on drugs has caused scheduling and punishment of citizens with serious shit for decades now.
 
But look further and you can find communities which have been blighted by cannabis, heroin, cocaine and other drugs being dealt on their doorsteps.
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Fucking mandrills...
 
Because the prohibitionists can't use logic or rationality to argue their case, they have to fall back on emotive reasoning and sensationalist mistruths. It really is pathetic and quiet transparent to a lot of people.
 
Every car crash is also a family tradegy.

I must take the bus, but no wait it is a vehicle too.....

(I don't really take the bus and I cannot stand bleating rubbish)

Fk off with your anti drug misinformation. And yes, If I feel like it I will hit 140mph on an A road.
 
7zark7 said:
Also in that article, it states that there were only 50 deaths from illegal drugs once you take out the fatalities from heroin, morphine and methadone. I don't mean to trivialise 50 deaths, but that amount is totally out of proportion to the hysteria generated in the media.

Figures also here: http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files2/stats/drug-related-deaths/drd2009/j1206622.htm
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the figures in that link for alcohol appear underestimated - see here: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_FactResearchGuide_DrugRelatedDeaths.htm

Note: the General Register Office for Scotland's drug related deaths for 2006 appear to indicate that there were 131 deaths in Scotland involving alcohol. However this figure appears to only refer to deaths where alcohol was preset in addition to an illegal drugs and therefore does not include deaths where alchol was the only drug involved
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Assuming they've used the same method, the alcohol deaths are significantly understated.
 
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