Our high death toll from drugs is prompting some big questions. Frank le Duc reports
We’re dying for a fix in Brighton and Hove. Fifty of us – mostly under 40 – lose our lives each year after taking drugs. We are consistently found to be the drug death capital of Britain. No wonder some of our leading public figures want to fix this problem and the tangle of related problems in its trail.
Drug-taking is rife and, while the prices of different drugs fluctuate with availability, it often starts out seeming reasonably cheap. And despite the best efforts of police and other enforcement agencies, the supply of illegal drugs rarely seems to suffer more than the occasional temporary blip. As with the prohibition of alcohol in America in the 1920s, it’s big business.
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