for Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign found young drug users keep their distance from older heroin addicts and regard heroin as a “dirty drug”.
“ It’s just a broader menu of things, of drugs ... Maybe it’s because the weed is around, and hash is around and cocaine is around. All the benzos are around and they’re in big supply around here.”These findings are contained in a new research report, The Drug Economy and Youth Interventions: An Exploratory Research Project on Working with Young People involved in the Illegal Drugs Trade.
The research will be unveiled at a seminar organised on Tuesday by Citywide to be held in St Andrew’s Community Centre,The report says the often precarious nature of work for young people, the so-called gig economy, makes being involved in drug-dealing a more lucrative way of making a living.
Criminalising people, especially young people starting out on their lives, is not helping.
kodomonster Ffs why is this behavior tolerated. Kids using and selling drugs. Parenting needs to be looked at. Didn’t happen when we were a Christian country.
Can’t blame people with this climate.