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This is the original article that won the award: https://www.ft.com/blackpool https://www.ft.com/blackpool There's an interesting dog-that-didn't-bark: the wo
by _dain_ 3y ago
This is the original article that won the award:
https://www.ft.com/blackpool https://www.ft.com/blackpool
There's an interesting dog-that-didn't-bark: the word "meth" does not appear. The drug is still not common in the UK[1]. Blackpool has precisely the demographic makeup where, if it were in America, it would be flooded with meth dealers and addicts, and become magnitudes worse than it already is.
I dread the day that drug finally makes landfall here. It will sweep through our urban underclass like the Black Death.
[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7jdd8/uk-british-dont-use-meth https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7jdd8/uk-british-dont-use-m...
- Obscurity4340 3y agoWhats the cocaine/crack situation, also other stimulants like Ritalin etc?
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- Earw0rm 3y agoNor fentanyl. Probably because while heroin is a thing, it tends to stay in its rather particular niche. I'm not a believer in gateway drugs generally, but the prescription opioid hell that exists in the US never really took off here. A problem yes, but not a society-wrecking scale. Mostly because doctors are much less free-and-easy with prescribing the stuff, and can't easily be bribed by drugco's to do so as they were in the US.