UK - Ket, meph, crystal and gbl: the party drugs blighting the lives of clubber

[edgarshade]

London Evening Standard

Joshi Herrmann
6 Jan 2012

With reader comments

Four months after its launch, Bowden-Jones has seen more patients (125 by now) and heard more harrowing stories than even he had predicted. They are tales of removed bladders, broken friendships, violent withdrawals, crippling paranoia and patients who set an alarm clock in the middle of the night to get their fix on time.

At the peak of his problems he was using ketamine, mephedrone and MDMA four or five times a week, on top of snorting a gram of cocaine a day and smoking cannabis every couple of days to come down.

Rachel suffered from the same illusion that afflicts many club drug users - the belief that, unlike traditionally demonised drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, the substances they abuse are so commonplace and recreational that no one on them could need help.

It's a phrase that could have come from Bowden-Jones's lips. "We are here to help people who run into trouble," he says. "We are not here to make a judgment about people's drug use; people make a choice about the drugs they use. We're just here for them when they want help."

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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/healt...gs-blighting-the-lives-of-londons-clubbers.do

 

[lynx2051]

This article is a joke! Newspapers from the south are terrible! No offense.

 

[edgarshade]

From Wikipedia, "On 21 January 2009 Russian businessman and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev and son Evgeny Lebedev, now the paper's chairman, agreed to purchase 75.1% of the paper for £1. The paper was formerly published by Associated Newspapers Ltd., a division of Daily Mail and General Trust. Associated Newspapers publishes the national papers Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, and Metro, a free morning paper distributed Monday-Friday at London stations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Standard

I might have known the Daily Mail had something to do with it.