Most women who come here are victims of abuse or domestic violence. ibid.
40% of women who come here fail to complete the programme. ibid.
The betting business is booming in Britain. But is it problem gamblers who are paying the price? We meet the punters who’ve lost everything. The gamblers who don’t know when to quit. And we ask, Are betting companies doing enough to protect problem gamblers? Panorama: Addicted to Gambling, BBC 2019
Around 0.7% of the population is thought to be addicted. That’s approximately 430,000 people, but there could be many more. ibid.
Britain is gambling more than ever before. ibid.
Jimmy’s World: 8-Year-Old Heroin Addict Lives For a Fix. Washington Post article Janet Cooke, cited The Newspaper Man: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee, Pulitzer Prize 1981 fabricated story
‘I was hanging out, you know, with world famous people. In many ways I was living the dream.’ Me and My Addiction, Channel 5 2018
The UK is the largest consumer of illegal drugs in Europe. Cocaine is the nation’s favourite Class A drug. ibid. caption
‘I knew from that first line that cocaine was going to be a part of my life.’ ibid.
Over one million people in the UK are regular drug users. 25% of them started before the age of 16. ibid. caption
‘I just wanted to snort cocaine. It stopped me worrying about the now.’ ibid.
‘Being in a terrible state on Monday morning.’ ibid.
‘I was high on my wedding day. Nobody knew. Except my dealer.’ ibid.
‘It’s a very shocking thing when suddenly you realise you are no longer in control.’ ibid.
Addiction to prescription drugs is becoming a major problem in the UK. Last year British doctors prescribed opioid painkillers over 20 million times. ibid.
‘All in all I’ve done 15 rehabs.’ ibid.
Booze isn’t really your drug of choice anyway. You’re addicted to chaos. Changing Lanes 2002 starring Ben Affleck & Samuel L Jackson & William Hurt & Kim Staunton & Toni Collette & Sydney Pollack & Tina Sloan & Richard Jenkins & Akil Walker & Cole Hawkins & Ileen Getz & Jennifer Dundas Lowe et al, director Roger Michell
My name is Adrian Chiles and I am not an alcoholic. At least I don’t think I am. I do drink most days … This is about nice, regular drinkers and the damage quietly being done to ourselves and society by drinkers like me. Drinkers Like Me – Adrian Chiles, BBC 2018
My weekly intake is something like 75 units. ibid.
Codeine cough syrup is causing a plague of addiction across Nigeria. Sweet Sweet Codeine, BBC Africa 2018
Addicts are being clapped in chains because syrup has turned them into thugs. ibid.
People all over the world are addicted to cough syrup with codeine. It’s a medicine that has become a street drug. A sweet sweet strawberry taste that makes you high and hooks you. Over time it will kill you. ibid.
Codeine cough syrup is produced on an industrial scale. ibid.
More Americans are dying of overdoses than ever before. And this is the epicentre of that crisis. Welcome to Montgomery County, Ohio, where thanks to a drug so powerful it could kill you if you touch it, police work isn’t what it used to be. One Nation, Overdosed, MSNBC 2017
What’s ravaging this community is made in a laboratory: Fentanyl. ibid.
A couple of years ago traffickers began mixing Fentanyl in with the heroin. ibid.
Tonight: Britain’s silent epidemic: are we a nation hooked on painkillers? The warning of powerful opioids and a looming public health crisis. Is it time to put the stopper in the bottle and rethink how we handle pain? Tonight: Britain on Painkillers, ITV 2018
We are among the biggest consumers of opioids in Europe. ibid.
Experts are warning when it comes to chronic long-term pain the drugs often just don’t work. ibid.
Every 11 minutes someone in the US dies of an opioid overdose. Death on the I-95: The Rise of Fentanyl, statistic: Center for Disease Control, BBC 2018
More than 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017. The worst year on record. ibid.
Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50. ibid.
‘It’s not heroin that’s killing our people, it’s Fentanyl.’ ibid. frontline worker
For decades Interstate 95 has been notorious for its role in the illegal drug trade in America. Stretching from Florida to Maine. ibid.
‘It steals their dreams. It steals their lives.’ ibid. mother of addict
On October 26 2017 the level of opioid and heroin abuse in America had risen to such high levels that it was declared a national public health emergency. An estimated 2.1 million Americans are addicted to heroin or prescription painkillers. Every day, 120 Americans died from an opioid overdose. America’s suburbs now have the highest overdose death rates in the country. Intervention: The Heroin Triangle, captions, Lifetime 2018
80% of new heroin users have previously abused prescription opioids. ibid.
Children of addicts are 3 to 4 times more likely to become addicted to drugs or alcohol. ibid.
A cluster of communities just north of Atlanta, Georgia, have been devastated by the opioid epidemic. The area is known as The Heroin Triangle. Intervention: The Heroin Triangle II
More than 9 million children in the US live with a parent who uses illegal drugs. ibid.
The man who runs the house pimps Toni out in exchange for a room and drugs. ibid.
‘When Tiffany mixes heroin on top of Xanax, it’s a deadly combination.’ Intervention: The Heroin Triangle III, Tiffany’s partner
‘Billy, stop!’ Intervention: The Heroin Triangle V, Billy escapes intervention car
Tiffany is going to Hope by the Sea in San Juan Capistrano, California … Billy is going to PACE Recovery Centre in Costa Mesa, California. ibid. caption
‘You are dying! Allen, I need you!’ Intervention: The Heroin Triangle VI, mother
Allen is going to Mandala Healing Centre in West Palm Beach Florida. ibid. caption
Taylor makes $4,000 a week as an exotic dancer. She spends most of her money on heroin. ibid.
This is Angela’s 9th attempt at getting sober. ibid.
‘They didn’t raise me to steal. Or a liar. They raised me better.’ Intervention: The Heroin Triangle VII, addict
Opioid withdrawal can begin within hours after use and last up to 10 days. Symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, increased heart rate and blood pressure. Intervention: The Heroin Triangle VIII
An Intensive Outpatient Program [IOP] is designed to accommodate work and family life. Intervention: The Heroin Triangle IX
Insite is North America’s first legal supervised injection site. Painkiller: Inside the Opioid Crisis, Telus Health 2018
‘People are dying of drug overdoses in unprecedented numbers … We have contamination of the illegal drug supply with a drug called Fentanyl.’ ibid. Dr Daly, Vancouver
‘The war on drugs has been a war on people.’ ibid. Dr Morhaim
1 in 5 people prescribed an opioid will become a long-term user within 10 days. ibid. caption
‘In one day alone at peak time I responded to 22 separate overdoses in one shift.’ ibid. paramedic
‘The number of people who are dying in British Colombia alone are a hundred die a month, and in the worst months more like a hundred and fifty. It’s a terrible crisis for young people in the prime of their lives.’ ibid. Dr Wood, director BC Centre on Substance Use
Iran has the highest number of heroin addicts in the world. Iran 1979: Legacy of a Revolution, Al Jazeera 2009
‘I haven’t eaten meat in a long time, say three to four months.’ The Life of Junkie Junior, sandwich and coffee, 1987
‘Where’s the needles at?’ ibid. in the house