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11 year old girl treated for heroin withdrawl
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been following this for the past few days, surprised no-one has posted it.
BBC News: Girl, 11, being treated for heroin withdrawl
also see the supplementary article;
BBC News: How do you treat an 11 year old addicted to heroin?
imagine, this girl is considered too young to have methadone aided withdrawl treatment (supplementary article explains why) and will have to do this rattle unaided...at 11 years old...poor little thing...
BBC News: Girl, 11, being treated for heroin withdrawl
also see the supplementary article;
BBC News: How do you treat an 11 year old addicted to heroin?
imagine, this girl is considered too young to have methadone aided withdrawl treatment (supplementary article explains why) and will have to do this rattle unaided...at 11 years old...poor little thing...
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I wouldn't even wonder that, theres like a 900000000000000000000000000000000% chance her parents/guardiens are addicts/users.
Edit: Actual statistical analysis :yes:
Check out Politics mate.
I've been following it losely/Kind of following it as it's near where my gf lives and friends of mine, I'm pretty certain her parents are users and she must live in the area where heroin is widely used and avaliable if she thought it was the norm.
Make it illegal?
They have been trying to do something, its just a shame they have been trying it for years and it continues to fail.
i was afraid someone of your experience would say as much...
It's about time the government properly addressed poverty which is the root cause. These stories of pre-teens banging smack at playtime all have a common denominator - poor social background.
True...it's a cycle. Seems to pass from generation to generation as well (not necessarily from parents to their children) as most of the people i know with drug problems have alcoholic/smackhead uncles etc.
Handing it out free on script to smackheads would help children of addicts. Decriminalise the 'scene' and much of the trouble goes. Can't see that happening in the near future though.
I mean in a small town of maybe 3000/4000 people, the only ones rich enough to do cocaine and the like were the ones from the private schools.
Look at pete doherty in about 5 years he'll be flat broke, living on a council estate spending all his money on Smack.
thats not the point though.
i doubt there 11 year olds are up to their eyeballs in it.
plus ...the rich can afford time out ...treatment etc.
look at many a 60's rocker ...still going strong ...still jacking it up.
Yeah thats exactly what i figured. It was extremely likely that her mother/parents/guardians are also addicts or users.
Doing drugs doesn't equate to being a heroin addict with your own children being hooked on smack at a ridiculous age.
All these stories i've heard involve deprived backgrounds. So, that's where the root cause evidently lies. "Tackling drugs" bullshit as some people suggest shouldn't even be mentioned.
heroin!
believe it or not yes it is possible.
do you know the reporter 'will self' ?
KIETH RICHARDS OF THE STONES?
MANY A SURGEON AND BANK MANAGER.
WHEN IT WAS HUGELY POPular around the first world war and through the nineteen twenties many proffesionals were openly addicted.
cleaner stuff of course.
the main problem is the law.
it creates filthy heroin ...disease ...corruption ...crime and so on.
it's almost as if the drugs laws are designed for two things ...raisnfg the level of crime and raising billions of pounds in untaxed redies.
it doesn't achieve anything good.
recreational drug use has a long and well recorded history ...come the twentieth century and we try a big experiment by making these things illegal ...it failed.
it's still failing.
Yeah in the early 20th century heroine was something that was a huge problem and a lot of people were addicted to it. This came about especially with the invention of the hypodermic needle. Also, opium was quite big back then especially over in asia.
Not really, opium was somewhat of a problem, but heroin did not become the large social problem it is today until the Misuse of Drugs Act was brought in.
I've never even seen it, I have them turned off.
It's a bloody good AV. I assume Jim is responsible.