Dear All
Drugs cause misery in deprived communities such as Possil and Milton in Glasgow.
How do you convince people it is a good idea to stop and change their lifestyle when they aren’t offered a future?
‘Just say no’ is catchy but divorced from the reality of Glasgow Heroin users.
Drugs like drink helps blot out for these people the fact that society has and will deny them the same chances that other more affluent people will experience.
For Government to talk down to them that they have a future is condescending because Government can’t even provide for them today never mind tomorrow.
How can you ask people to conform to what is perceived as the norms of society when these people are treated as second class citizens?
This has given rise to a hardcore underclass which operates under its own code.
We see this is in crime statistics which show the cycle of prison, release to the ghetto and then return to prison.
That’s no future at all.
As well as the burden that crime brings, the drug user places greater strain on the NHS, probation and social work services.
They have a client for life so it seems.
Research to be published in Glasgow also suggests another avenue open to the long term drug user, suicide.
How long can a person live without hope, denied help and opportunity?
What is poorly addressed by the Government at various levels is getting these people stability.
The continual failure is staggering when matched up against the highly paid people who feed off their situation.
Reports, roadshows, new strategies, conferences, books, all saying the same thing and achieving the same conclusion, drugs are bad and people are better being off them.
To the drug user in Possil and Milton not part of the lucrative industry ‘serving’ them, all that work translates to nothing.
Is there a solution?
Yes but I would suggest there isn’t the will to take up the fight.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Drugs cause misery in deprived communities such as Possil and Milton in Glasgow.
How do you convince people it is a good idea to stop and change their lifestyle when they aren’t offered a future?
‘Just say no’ is catchy but divorced from the reality of Glasgow Heroin users.
Drugs like drink helps blot out for these people the fact that society has and will deny them the same chances that other more affluent people will experience.
For Government to talk down to them that they have a future is condescending because Government can’t even provide for them today never mind tomorrow.
How can you ask people to conform to what is perceived as the norms of society when these people are treated as second class citizens?
This has given rise to a hardcore underclass which operates under its own code.
We see this is in crime statistics which show the cycle of prison, release to the ghetto and then return to prison.
That’s no future at all.
As well as the burden that crime brings, the drug user places greater strain on the NHS, probation and social work services.
They have a client for life so it seems.
Research to be published in Glasgow also suggests another avenue open to the long term drug user, suicide.
How long can a person live without hope, denied help and opportunity?
What is poorly addressed by the Government at various levels is getting these people stability.
The continual failure is staggering when matched up against the highly paid people who feed off their situation.
Reports, roadshows, new strategies, conferences, books, all saying the same thing and achieving the same conclusion, drugs are bad and people are better being off them.
To the drug user in Possil and Milton not part of the lucrative industry ‘serving’ them, all that work translates to nothing.
Is there a solution?
Yes but I would suggest there isn’t the will to take up the fight.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Following on from your article about " oor Bridgit" drug dealers in milton and possil got great help from her..to the tune of 1.8 million.. to run a centre in milton, despite being told by residents what was going on and later by the boys in blue, she wasn't convinced until a young man was murdered by an american military m16 assault rifle.. she quickly passed the buck and denied the recorded statements attributed to her. And her man jack isn,t squeeky clean either.. Maybe the name Justin Mcillroy will bring a cold shiver to him.
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ReplyDeleteChirnsyde Community Initiative in Milton is also a milestone around Steven 'bin laden' Purcell's neck too.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
That shooting was the 12th in 2 years in the north of glasgow connected to that centre, but wee bridgit refused to believe her friends in the centre could have anything to do with it, and connected to that was Justin McIllroy, jack's friend, blasted 6 times by a gunman when he crawled under his car to escape the hitman, the poor cunt set up by the cops is still fighting to prove his innocence. a fit up if i ever seen one.
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