Does Sunderland have a Heroin problem?

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There's a fair few around Washington, I hate seeing them going to the Chemist for their Methadone / needle exchanges, f***ing proper scruffs, I'm glad I've never felt the need to end my life like they have, because that stuff is the road to hell.
 
Mackem DJ said:
Yep. Noticed that for a long long time. Has to be something to do with the deepwater port they have there surely.
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Its mainly a container free port,so Im guessing a lot doesnt get searched,plus once some one is addicted and owing money it must be easy to "convince"them to move gear around the country
 
look out piano said:
There's a fair few around Washington, I hate seeing them going to the Chemist for their Methadone / needle exchanges, f***ing proper scruffs, I'm glad I've never felt the need to end my life like they have, because that stuff is the road to hell.
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If the road to hell is paved with delicious heroin I’m tempted to commit some sins.
 
HANDSOME_DAN said:
You sound far more informed than me mate but the two things I can’t see past are #1 the big cities full of money and opportunity have far more visible heroin problems and #2 in my experience young people get into drugs via ecstacy and coke, nobody starts on crack or smack. they start by partying on a weekend on the lighter duty stuff and a minority get sucked into a full time habit. I guess this is a mixture of people who are bored/disenfranchised (shit excuse in my view) or lower levels of willpower/self control. Shit circumstances all round either way. People who deal hard drugs are worse than paedos in my view.
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I'm not sure that's the always case for a lot of young people. I suspect many don't get to it via ecstasy or coke but via temazepam and diazepam and oramorph or oxycontin they've stolen off nana.
 
jedi_toaster said:
You’ve also got to factor in the willingness of Doctor’s to prescribe opiate painkillers. That’s led to a huge issue in America, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it has an effect over here, but with our nhs we (hopefully) won’t suddenly stop a person’s prescription, which in the US has led to loads of people seeking out smack to take the edge off the withdrawal that occurs. Technically I’m a smack-head through my oxycodone prescription for back pain, which I know I’m addicted to and couldn’t just stop without weening off. It’s a sorry state of affairs, really.
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So true about doctor's prescribing opiates here in America. My wife had a really bad headache so we ended up going to ER and the doctor told her they were going to give a shot of heroin for the pain. She's had heroin shots for pain in the past and it makes things worse for her as it intensifies the pain and makes her nauseous and dizzy, so I told the doctor that she couldn't take heroin because she has a bad reaction to it. He was insisting that it was the best thing for her pain. He didn't give her the shot, but they are always so willing and ready to use it for pain.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
So true about doctor's prescribing opiates here in America. My wife had a really bad headache so we ended up going to ER and the doctor told her they were going to give a shot of heroin for the pain. She's had heroin shots for pain in the past and it makes things worse for her as it intensifies the pain and makes her nauseous and dizzy, so I told the doctor that she couldn't take heroin because she has a bad reaction to it. He was insisting that it was the best thing for her pain. He didn't give her the shot, but they are always so willing and ready to use it for pain.
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It is the best thing for pain, it’s just really irresponsible to use it for a headache! It’s like using a sledgehammer to crack open a nut.
 
The King of Um said:
I'm not sure that's the always case for a lot of young people. I suspect many don't get to it via ecstasy or coke but via temazepam and diazepam and oramorph or oxycontin they've stolen off nana.
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I doubt there are many kids who have a nana with a huge drugs stash who doesn’t notice it being rapidly depleted tbh. I’m sure those drugs are part of the slope though and are widely available from dealers, especially online now
 
HANDSOME_DAN said:
I doubt there are many kids who have a nana with a huge drugs stash who doesn’t notice it being rapidly depleted tbh. I’m sure those drugs are part of the slope though and are widely available from dealers, especially online now
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The first two are about as available as smarties round Sunderland, and not much more expensive. Huge amount of prescription drugs being resold around the estates, which is a disgrace in more than one way as we pay for the original prescriptions for most of them, they're not needed, and the people selling them on must know that a very large proportion of them will go to kids. As bad as dealers of classified drugs, but you don't seem to hear of many being done, sadly.
 
The King of Um said:
The first two are about as available as smarties round Sunderland, and not much more expensive. Huge amount of prescription drugs being resold around the estates, which is a disgrace in more than one way as we pay for the original prescriptions for most of them, they're not needed, and the people selling them on must know that a very large proportion of them will go to kids. As bad as dealers of classified drugs, but you don't seem to hear of many being done, sadly.
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Massive amounts available online now, I think resold prescriptions are just the tip of the iceberg like.
 
The King of Um said:
The first two are about as available as smarties round Sunderland, and not much more expensive. Huge amount of prescription drugs being resold around the estates, which is a disgrace in more than one way as we pay for the original prescriptions for most of them, they're not needed, and the people selling them on must know that a very large proportion of them will go to kids. As bad as dealers of classified drugs, but you don't seem to hear of many being done, sadly.
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Surely a lot of them will be fakes manufactured underground from imported raw powders, or imported from places with over the counter purchase etc?
 
The King of Um said:
The first two are about as available as smarties round Sunderland, and not much more expensive. Huge amount of prescription drugs being resold around the estates, which is a disgrace in more than one way as we pay for the original prescriptions for most of them, they're not needed, and the people selling them on must know that a very large proportion of them will go to kids. As bad as dealers of classified drugs, but you don't seem to hear of many being done, sadly.
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This. Morphine, sleeping pills, diazapam , tramadol, pretty much anything anyone wanted you could get your hands on from someone who knows someone with a prescription
 
Left For Dead said:
Our lass in Sunderland hospital for gall stone and in a ward with Heroin addicts, some with cists off injecting in leg, some with damaged neck off injecting. Didn't realise this was a major thing, and more associated with the bigger cities. Anybody else noticed this?
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Former pit villages are rife with it as well.

Scimmy said:
On occasions I have been in the Well chemists on Dundas Street at methodone doling out time. The junkies coming for their fix were like the living dead. It was noticeable that they all had facial characteristics that suggested limited intellect. Maybe heroin does that to some people.
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One at bottom of Sunniside/Tatum street is a cracker, at methadone drop in time it looks like the Walking dead version of the queues at the SOL ticket office for Man City cup finals :lol:
 
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