I'm gob smacked to discover the drug problems Dundee has. I was there back in February this year, first time in 12 years. I partly grew up there and it's not the Dundee I knew but then I shouldn't be surprised. My friends were heading into that direction of drugs. I fell out with them. I'll be surprised if they're still alive to be honest. Such a beautiful place, what a shame. Drugs destroys everything in the end.
Well done for leavng your 'friends'. Though my 'friends' were into alcohol, I decided to dump them. These people are not good for us. Choosing our environment is very important. Now 58 never taken drugs, 99 percent teatotal.I am quite a strong person.
@@beaulieuc8910 I did or shall I say, they left me. In the world of drugs, if you're face don't fit and your straight and clean, they don't want to know you. That was my case. One of my aunt's from Dundee now living in Portugal since 1985 is now a careless irresponsible alcoholic despite having a good career traveling the world. She's no different to the rest back in Dundee. I don't feel sorry for people like that really. It's a shame because Dundee is such a beautiful place with beautiful scenery.
Sound like a white nerrow minded supremest? There are 200 countries around the world. Fk the citizens who have to learn English to have any decent job even in their own country.
The problem actually might be opposite round. The UK is against independence and is happy and have strong will to disrupt the cuntry senses by drugging the people with flood of drugs. UK gov has toppled and damaged so many countries around the world. Why this time might be different.
It was like this before the SNP were in power. What do want Sturgeon to do exactly? You can give them methadone in the morning but they'll still go out and burgle someone's house in the afternoon.
Nah she needs to get the currency issue sorted, as for the junkies - fence them into the Hulltoon drop in tainted heroin - let them consume then 2 days later clear away the rubble
All my friends are from other parts of Scotland and they refuse to come here cause of the junkies etc and I’ve had people come over and get threatened to give money etc.. I want to love my country and where I am but it’s just so uncomfortable and feels unsafe
Is it as bad as that now. It's not the Dundee recognise any more. But I shouldn't be surprised. My uncle from there who now lives in Livingston got mugged on his way home from a night out at a pub in what used to be a subway before they turned it into a level crossing. Between Nethergate street and Market Street if I spelt it correctly, exactly across from where the Angus hotel used to be. I'm sure they mugged him for money to buy drugs. I'm due to pass by visit some relatives between this year and early next year when I visit Scotland next but it sounds like I need to look out if it's that dangerous.
It isn’t just Dundee though, it’s like this all over Scotland now! Even little fishing towns have major drug problems. Visiting towns in Fife is like visiting the Zombie apocalypse! Scotland runs at a financial deficit so the UK taxpayers are funding this. There are no hero’s in this scenario, the SNP are a one agenda party and Westminster certainly doesn’t have fighting drug addiction at the top of its agenda. Scottish people suffer from a vitamin D deficiency as do many Nordic countries, depression is a consequence and leads to self medicating. In Scotland it’s out of hand. Many people in Scotland (I’m Scottish) are unable to face up to statistical facts, they blindly follow the party line like sheep getting loaded into trucks headed to the slaughter house. You will undoubtedly see such comments in reply to mine. It is not England’s fault; we have had 13 years of SNP leadership and what have we got , falling educational standards, earlier death than other parts of the UK, political scandal. Slating Boris (and I’m no fan of his either), blaming England and English people or blaming history is just a diversionary tactic. We need to face up to our own country’s problems. England didn’t create these addicts, a sick Scottish culture, break down of family structures, over fondness of addictive substances as a way of blotting out reality instead of dealing with it; those are the reasons and we need to face the facts not some myth blaming everything but ourselves. Scottish alcoholics have been a feature of pubs in every major city in the world. We are not victims, we are the creators of our own demise. We have a long history of self destruction and blaming it all on England. After 13 years the excuses are wearing thin and to the world, we are becoming a joke. Some tourist guides in some countries are actually advising travellers not to visit Scotland now because of the danger of violence. Can we all please just grow up, stop making embarrassing excuses and take responsibility.
Brilliantly put Aileen, this has nothing to do with politics. Politicians will never solve this, people must do that themselves. This, like most other problems in our country is due to a total breakdown and lack of moral character and it's just getting worse.
Is it that bad in Fife too? We'll that doesn't surprise me. I understand that Scotland has the worst track record not just in the UK but throughout all of Europe for drugs and drug related deaths. That's probably why the movie Trainspotting came about. It's a shame because it gives Scotland negative picture to the rest of the world. A lot of the people I knew turned out that way sadly. I did witnesses the drug problems in Spain where I spent some time. America ( US ) is a other place that has a serious issue with drugs when you see the problems with all the homeless people there. Of course we have drug problems down here in England too.
@@Brandon-gf5tw, I live in Cornwall now and yes there is a drug problem but nowhere as bad as in Scotland. Alcohol and drugs are destroying Scotland. It’s heartbreaking to see.
@@aileenmoore7503 I agree. I live in close by to you. I live in Plymouth just smack on the Cornish boarder. When you tell people here about the big drug problems in Scotland, they say that there's drugs in Plymouth too. I agree but I don't think it compares much with Scotland.
Would you like wee smack rooms throughout the city ? Junkies can nip in and get fucked up. I get punished because people have no self control, abidy has problems best no deal with them using drugs
@@diddlysquat88 I've lived in Scotland all my life and taking drugs has never crossed my mind. It's certainly a lot nicer here than in England for the most part. You couldn't pay me to live in Birmingham or Slough
Lols exactly my thinking.the police in dundee work hand in hand with the criminals.i know of 2 in particular(police) that give the names or ip address of people who are classed as grasses.its disgusting
Westminster has a lot to answer for, they've done sod all the last 40 yrs to address the citys social problems, added to their brutal austerity program it has contributed to the increased drug use in our city. Its shameful a city the size of Dundee doesn't have a dedicated 24/7 unit.
@@Paratus7 beyond help? Thanks for your deep insight. In fact that's the tory mantra at the heart of the problem, they don't care as long as old blightys infrastructure vanity projects are being funded by Scottish oil and renewables. Independence is the beginning of the solution.
"...brutal austerity program..."? You mean that intop of the NHS, dentist, copsm criminal justice, free money, housing, council tax, then a pension etc, you think that the Tories are to blame for trying to reduce the national debt so that the counrty remains a place to invest, and the debt is not passed on to future generations? Btw, Lots of help need to pick fruit that is rotting in the fields round Dundee, while grown adults like to get high and who demand a free life for life. Perhaps a day working in the fields? Many have not and will never work, why should they?
@@tonygibson1558 "...brutal austerity program..."? You mean that intop of the NHS, dentist, copsm criminal justice, free money, housing, council tax, then a pension etc, you think that the Tories are to blame for trying to reduce the national debt so that the counrty remains a place to invest, and the debt is not passed on to future generations? Btw, Lots of help need to pick fruit that is rotting in the fields round Dundee, while grown adults like to get high and who demand a free life for life. Perhaps a day working in the fields? Many have not and will never work, why should they? Funded by oil renenue?? It just gets worse. Good luck with your independence, it will pls putin and china, and the rest.
What's it got to do with Westminster? It's a Scottish issue, devolved to Scotland. The Scottish government controls NHS, healthcare, education and raises it's own tax. This isn't a Westminster issue, it's a Scottish government issue.
2:13 Your choices have made you a bad person. Whenever you start to own the responsibility for your addiction you have a chance of overcoming it, until then you're a victim of circumstance and your own maladaptive coping mechanisms.
Once you let the shame go, you can start to recover. As an ex addict I know that the shame of becoming an addict kept me mired in addiction. I was lucky because I had a life to go back to.
Omg what's happened in Dundee!! No one should get like this. It's NOT other people that make you an addict..it's yourself that makes you an addict!! 🤔😤
Well since addiction is a disability and disability is the direct result of the societal, economic and interpersonal relationships people have, yes actualy, it is the fault of other people as well as the individual. Dont be so foolish as to think the story of addiction starts and ends with one person.
You find it insulting they subtitle people speaking English with accents that people outside the UK or non native English speakers might struggle to understand? You have a sheltered life man lol.
The only solution is social care- enforced at a camp/hotel/controlled environment for the addicts. Then strict policing of drug pushers and dealers. Then social care in terms of employment and helping the addicts stuck in this culture to develop self-worth and education through an active, controlled programme. I'm afraid doctors prescribing legal drugs are nearly as much a problem as the illegal drugs- How many people do you know have been prescribed valium, anti-depressants etc, when a slight change in diet to include magnesium supplements and fresh air and exercise is possibly all that is needed- but big pharma is not interested in that when there are profits from a straining NHS is it?..... The Government, including Westminster and especially the tin-pot SNP one have a lot to answer for. The addicts can only do it for themselves, but then only if a support mechanism is there to guide them. 'Support' an oft used term for yet more talk- in this case, it needs real comprehensive action as clearly no one in power gives a damn about these people.
They need to invest in proper treatment centres for those people addicted to street benzodiazepine "cocktail" pills. The amount these people are taking could easily lead to convulsions and death upon immediate cessation. It has to be a gradual process of controlled dose reduction. As a group of drugs, benzodiazepines are far far more difficult to come off than heroin or cocaine. It can take many months to recover or even years in some cases.
In my personal experience because I always like opioids more and was addicted to opioids first, coming off of benzos was easy. Not to say I didn't like benzos, noo far from it *loved them* . Two times I took benzos for several weeks without even thinking our realising I was physically addicted. But as soon as I realized I got some weaker ones (Diazepam, Alprazolam) and steadily dosed down. After that I took them a couple of more times and never got physically hooked anymore, just didn't want it. I guess my case is a kind of stranger one, like the same thing with alcohol for me. Drank every day atleast a bottle (700ml 30-33%) for about a whole year, then dosed down and quit. Also never got hooked again, and today I'm drinking a beer every couple of days at most but have no desire to *really* drink again. But when it comes to opioids... oh well almost 10 years and still seemingly not able to not take them. But I'm now in a healthier mental state (strange, now that I'm chronically ill and have a 50% chance of dying to this), I'm doing light workouts every now and then and currently cut my dose exactly by 61%. Tomorrow it will be 68%. Maybe I will make it this time, time will tell but slowly I really want another life (addicted since im 12 to this shxt and I want to accomplish atleast something with my remaining life). I wish luck to all the people out there, if you struggle and want to talk just comment and we will exchange some details to a different platform if ya want (to all the addicts struggling)
Literally saw that first ginger girl dropping off gear to another girl outside the wellgate the day before yesterday. These people won’t change. Don’t want to. No incentive to.
If you're really, really honest with yourself, you'll admit that you don't give a monkeys about what any of these people do to themselves. What DOES bother you is: risk to your on personal safety (i.e. getting mugged), risk to people e.g. your kids that you do actually care about (don't want them drawn into it), effect on personal property (getting burgled), effect on the urban environment (druggies and their parephenalia are an eyesore), and burden on the taxpayer. You don't care about them. At all. Which is precisely why they will always be with us: a reminder of an atomised, individualised, amoral, disintegrating modern world that doesn't care.
@@beaulieuc8910 on Death Row, the authorities are currently discussing a reprieve for some lifers on grounds of diminished responsibility. This is due to neuroscience showing that the pre-frontal cortex is stunted due to neglect and abuse in childhood and therefore their ability to ‘choose’ and consider consequences is severely impaired. Grinding poverty has also been shown to impair a person’s ability to think straight. Some people have lives that are more messed up than you could ever possibly imagine. Just count your lucky stars you’re not one of them.
the way that our society has treated addiction has resulted in COUNTLESS deaths and wasted potential... we are WAY behind the "eight ball" (pun intended) .... drug use is a part of the human experience... its not going to go away.. EVER... we need harm reduction and early education.... i hope things change 🙏
"...brutal austerity program..."? You mean that intop of the NHS, dentist, copsm criminal justice, free money, housing, council tax, then a pension etc, you think that the Tories are to blame for trying to reduce the national debt so that the counrty remains a place to invest, and the debt is not passed on to future generations? Btw, Lots of help need to pick fruit that is rotting in the fields round Dundee, while grown adults like to get high and who demand a free life for life. Perhaps a day working in the fields? No work ethic is a big part of the problem.
Nicola sturgeon claims …she improved Scotland…… Four cities in Scotland to Shepherd… to Pastor … I never saw Sturgeon on our streets …not once … Bless the government of Scotland and police and courts and teachers and faith …. Lord help Scotland… We are so desperate for your help ….
@user-ny1fq5xb8k I hope that fentanyl never hits your shores. If you think heroin is bad, fentanyl makes it look relatively safe. In the last two years, Canada has been over 16,000 overdose deaths. We have a tiny population compared to the UK too.
Three years on from this depressing video and you’ll find that Dundee Council has money to waste on talking lamp posts and bus shelters so that those citizens of Dundee not out of their brains on drugs can address their concerns about climate change to a ruddy robotic voice.
Dundee is an absolute shithole. Poverty and drug-abuse is status quo with generational poverty being the standard expectation. Chances of achieving any form of social mobility are low. Depressing place.
No, society needs to be held accountable for the ways it makes people behave. Choice is an element of behavior, but reactive behavior comprises a large part of what choices people are able to make. Addiction is a disability, and disabilities are not a choice, they are a reaction to the problem of the way we behave and operate on a much grander scale.
Thts 💩 this video was posted over a year ago and dundees probarly 100 times worse ! Ive grew up in dundee and from ive been a teenager that is all ive seen is addicts everyware ! Get a rehab built and stop feeding them methadone , and help they poor people out !
Methadone is necessary for rehab. It's easier to taper off, etc. Heroin causes SEVERE, potentially lethal over doses. Methadone is necessary for recovering addicts
Blaming a pregnancy and childbirth as a reason why she's addicted??? Wow! BS I love looking at these people. People who can't take blame on why they're addicts. Ooohh! Don't hiss at me. I'm one too. But I don't blame anyone. Not doctors, not parents. I take the blame myself. I know how it feels and I liked it and I wanna continue to have that feeling. Just like them. Nobody is force feeding them.
Addiction is not a choice, it is a disability. Disabilities are the results of outside factors imposing inwardly on the life of an individual, creating problems which would not arise in those of a neurotypical nature. It's very easy to spout off about choice, but I'd love to know what choices you've made that have lead your life to be so incomparably fantastic
@@TheGiggadude I don't agree with you, I was an addict. It started off with a motorcycle accident when I was in Canada and the doctor prescribed me oxycodone, I was prescribed it many times before that and nothing ever came of it. But this time I couldn't work so I took my pills and watched movies, soon I needed more pills and more pills and than I figured these pills are too weak. Thats when I tried heroin.... bottom line, IT WAS MY CHOICE, I don't blame the doctor I don't blame the motorcycle. I blame myself!!!!! Same thing with getting clean, I DID IT MYSELF!!!!!
I find this documentary repulsive.not going to name people,but most people that are tackling the drug crises are still out there heads on the stuff too.wouldnt be surprised if the dealing goes down at the very place they are ment to go to get clean.dundees system is a joke,police work with the criminals,the drug workers are sacked out there heads on the very drugs they are ment to be helping people to get off.all I can say is pitiful
Maybe if the went after the dealers which the police do not do get the .money of the big boys not low l lieing FRUIT then plenty money to fund the vunreable
Stfu lmao. "A proper man". ANYONE left to their own devices since 13, or with the obvious trauma of most people in this video will not make the same decisions as you and I
I have lived here all of my life (39 years)...and it has always been like this as far back as I can remember, people need to want the help in order to get "clean"...and people here don't want that help, its as simple as that...and to say it is not choice to become and addict is crazy in itself, of course its a choice...I don't wake up in the morning and say "oh, I think i'll do some heroin today, and maybe some cocaine tomorrow if the going is good"...it is a choice!...
Its a choice so much as you have the choice to make, but if there is no other option readily presented to you, then no, there is no choice. People take the best that they are given, and if what surrounds you is addiction, poverty, homelessness, then there really are no seemingly better options than drugs. Absolutely choice on the part of the individual plays a huge role in getting clean and starting to USE a given substance, but substance abuse and addiction are both complex disabilities. In the case of disability, outward societal factors are allways to blame first, before the actions of the individual.
Oh aye, if only it was as easy as that. The vast majority of people that are addicts (alcohol, drugs, etc) are self-medicating some sortof mental health issue or trauma. It's such a difficult issue for people to face. But you seem to have the answer. Can you phone round all the addiction serviced and let them know you got it figured out? Ta.
I live here and honestly 😢 please leglise cannabis 😢 14 funerals in 6 years 🙏 if these people had an organic way to soothe their pain theybwluld still be here along with the 1308 people we lost to drugs last year, dont get me started
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I'm gob smacked to discover the drug problems Dundee has. I was there back in February this year, first time in 12 years. I partly grew up there and it's not the Dundee I knew but then I shouldn't be surprised. My friends were heading into that direction of drugs. I fell out with them. I'll be surprised if they're still alive to be honest. Such a beautiful place, what a shame. Drugs destroys everything in the end.
Well done for leavng your 'friends'. Though my 'friends' were into alcohol, I decided to dump them. These people are not good for us. Choosing our environment is very important. Now 58 never taken drugs, 99 percent teatotal.I am quite a strong person.
@@beaulieuc8910 I did or shall I say, they left me. In the world of drugs, if you're face don't fit and your straight and clean, they don't want to know you. That was my case. One of my aunt's from Dundee now living in Portugal since 1985 is now a careless irresponsible alcoholic despite having a good career traveling the world. She's no different to the rest back in Dundee. I don't feel sorry for people like that really. It's a shame because Dundee is such a beautiful place with beautiful scenery.
First step is to accept responsibility.
Saying "it's not my fault" will not help you address the problem
Thats a wholly misinformed opinion to have.
The first step is to accept reality.
The old bloke is the perfect example of the mindset they have. That it is always somebody else's fault.
I was going to comment that exact same point.
It always is someone else's fault. Usually parents
Very true m, it's their choice, to much benefits handed out, if you can arrive in a taxi to pick you money and drugs up you get to much benefits
I'm from the south of England and I'll heartily say - we don't need subtitles on the Scots so please stop doing it.
Maybe it’s not for you
It’s for the whole world 🌍
Sound like a white nerrow minded supremest?
There are 200 countries around the world. Fk the citizens who have to learn English to have any decent job even in their own country.
@@ConstructiveMinds100 *narrow
It's not just for the English, it's for the 200 over countries too.
First step is for Sturgeon to concentrate on this problem instead of continuous rants about independence.
And transgender rights
The problem actually might be opposite round. The UK is against independence and is happy and have strong will to disrupt the cuntry senses by drugging the people with flood of drugs.
UK gov has toppled and damaged so many countries around the world. Why this time might be different.
It was like this before the SNP were in power. What do want Sturgeon to do exactly? You can give them methadone in the morning but they'll still go out and burgle someone's house in the afternoon.
Nah she needs to get the currency issue sorted, as for the junkies - fence them into the Hulltoon drop in tainted heroin - let them consume then 2 days later clear away the rubble
Working at a till in Dundee I see baked moms behing guided and helped to interact with the world by their 10 year old sons and daughters
That’s terrible. Trouble is they will only get help when they’re ready to. You can’t force someone to get clean.
Don't say "baked" thats a word for someone whos stoned not on heroin
You need behing guidance being baked behind that till 😑
choose life, choose a career...
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All my friends are from other parts of Scotland and they refuse to come here cause of the junkies etc and I’ve had people come over and get threatened to give money etc.. I want to love my country and where I am but it’s just so uncomfortable and feels unsafe
Is it as bad as that now. It's not the Dundee recognise any more. But I shouldn't be surprised. My uncle from there who now lives in Livingston got mugged on his way home from a night out at a pub in what used to be a subway before they turned it into a level crossing.
Between Nethergate street and Market Street if I spelt it correctly, exactly across from where the Angus hotel used to be. I'm sure they mugged him for money to buy drugs. I'm due to pass by visit some relatives between this year and early next year when I visit Scotland next but it sounds like I need to look out if it's that dangerous.
It's Dundee your living not the bronx 😂
It isn’t just Dundee though, it’s like this all over Scotland now! Even little fishing towns have major drug problems. Visiting towns in Fife is like visiting the Zombie apocalypse! Scotland runs at a financial deficit so the UK taxpayers are funding this. There are no hero’s in this scenario, the SNP are a one agenda party and Westminster certainly doesn’t have fighting drug addiction at the top of its agenda. Scottish people suffer from a vitamin D deficiency as do many Nordic countries, depression is a consequence and leads to self medicating. In Scotland it’s out of hand. Many people in Scotland (I’m Scottish) are unable to face up to statistical facts, they blindly follow the party line like sheep getting loaded into trucks headed to the slaughter house. You will undoubtedly see such comments in reply to mine. It is not England’s fault; we have had 13 years of SNP leadership and what have we got , falling educational standards, earlier death than other parts of the UK, political scandal. Slating Boris (and I’m no fan of his either), blaming England and English people or blaming history is just a diversionary tactic. We need to face up to our own country’s problems. England didn’t create these addicts, a sick Scottish culture, break down of family structures, over fondness of addictive substances as a way of blotting out reality instead of dealing with it; those are the reasons and we need to face the facts not some myth blaming everything but ourselves. Scottish alcoholics have been a feature of pubs in every major city in the world. We are not victims, we are the creators of our own demise. We have a long history of self destruction and blaming it all on England. After 13 years the excuses are wearing thin and to the world, we are becoming a joke. Some tourist guides in some countries are actually advising travellers not to visit Scotland now because of the danger of violence. Can we all please just grow up, stop making embarrassing excuses and take responsibility.
Well said aileen couldn't have put it better myself
Brilliantly put Aileen, this has nothing to do with politics. Politicians will never solve this, people must do that themselves. This, like most other problems in our country is due to a total breakdown and lack of moral character and it's just getting worse.
Is it that bad in Fife too? We'll that doesn't surprise me. I understand that Scotland has the worst track record not just in the UK but throughout all of Europe for drugs and drug related deaths. That's probably why the movie Trainspotting came about. It's a shame because it gives Scotland negative picture to the rest of the world. A lot of the people I knew turned out that way sadly. I did witnesses the drug problems in Spain where I spent some time. America ( US ) is a other place that has a serious issue with drugs when you see the problems with all the homeless people there. Of course we have drug problems down here in England too.
@@Brandon-gf5tw, I live in Cornwall now and yes there is a drug problem but nowhere as bad as in Scotland. Alcohol and drugs are destroying Scotland. It’s heartbreaking to see.
@@aileenmoore7503 I agree. I live in close by to you. I live in Plymouth just smack on the Cornish boarder. When you tell people here about the big drug problems in Scotland, they say that there's drugs in Plymouth too. I agree but I don't think it compares much with Scotland.
Keep in mind the council spends more on the firework display in dundee than they do the drug problem!
Would you like wee smack rooms throughout the city ? Junkies can nip in and get fucked up. I get punished because people have no self control, abidy has problems best no deal with them using drugs
Wid ye like another kipper dr Finley But the fireworks please a lot more people the coonsil dont give a tosser for non voters
Junkies are a lost cause, no amount of money can change it.
Scotland is one of the most depressing places in the world. I would sort to drugs too if i had to live there!
Just out of interest, where do you live?
@@roberttelford745 i live in Norway mate. I'm sorry, but Scotland is on my bottom Bucket List for revisits!
@@diddlysquat88 I've lived in Scotland all my life and taking drugs has never crossed my mind.
It's certainly a lot nicer here than in England for the most part.
You couldn't pay me to live in Birmingham or Slough
The SNP has committed to bringing the price down and improving availability.
Lols exactly my thinking.the police in dundee work hand in hand with the criminals.i know of 2 in particular(police) that give the names or ip address of people who are classed as grasses.its disgusting
Yet 1 billion was spent on a new water front.
Westminster has a lot to answer for, they've done sod all the last 40 yrs to address the citys social problems, added to their brutal austerity program it has contributed to the increased drug use in our city. Its shameful a city the size of Dundee doesn't have a dedicated 24/7 unit.
@@Paratus7 beyond help? Thanks for your deep insight. In fact that's the tory mantra at the heart of the problem, they don't care as long as old blightys infrastructure vanity projects are being funded by Scottish oil and renewables. Independence is the beginning of the solution.
One eyed fcking nationalists, smh, look a bit closer to home ya roaster 🏴
"...brutal austerity program..."?
You mean that intop of the NHS, dentist, copsm criminal justice, free money, housing, council tax, then a pension etc, you think that the Tories are to blame for trying to reduce the national debt so that the counrty remains a place to invest, and the debt is not passed on to future generations?
Btw, Lots of help need to pick fruit that is rotting in the fields round Dundee, while grown adults like to get high and who demand a free life for life.
Perhaps a day working in the fields? Many have not and will never work, why should they?
@@tonygibson1558 "...brutal austerity program..."?
You mean that intop of the NHS, dentist, copsm criminal justice, free money, housing, council tax, then a pension etc, you think that the Tories are to blame for trying to reduce the national debt so that the counrty remains a place to invest, and the debt is not passed on to future generations?
Btw, Lots of help need to pick fruit that is rotting in the fields round Dundee, while grown adults like to get high and who demand a free life for life.
Perhaps a day working in the fields? Many have not and will never work, why should they?
Funded by oil renenue?? It just gets worse. Good luck with your independence, it will pls putin and china, and the rest.
What's it got to do with Westminster? It's a Scottish issue, devolved to Scotland.
The Scottish government controls NHS, healthcare, education and raises it's own tax.
This isn't a Westminster issue, it's a Scottish government issue.
2:13 Your choices have made you a bad person. Whenever you start to own the responsibility for your addiction you have a chance of overcoming it, until then you're a victim of circumstance and your own maladaptive coping mechanisms.
Once you let the shame go, you can start to recover. As an ex addict I know that the shame of becoming an addict kept me mired in addiction. I was lucky because I had a life to go back to.
Omg what's happened in Dundee!! No one should get like this. It's NOT other people that make you an addict..it's yourself that makes you an addict!! 🤔😤
Easier to get your hands on heroine than it is to find a job these days
Well since addiction is a disability and disability is the direct result of the societal, economic and interpersonal relationships people have, yes actualy, it is the fault of other people as well as the individual. Dont be so foolish as to think the story of addiction starts and ends with one person.
@@TheGiggadude ''Addiction is a disability'' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Make no mistake its doable it's how hard you whant a life that's the bottom line !....speedy recovery god bless
Dundee is a drop in the ocean compared to rest of Scotland
Yess fast eddie has to be in the video
I found the subtitles a bit insulting. These folks are speaking English., even if you are too ignorant to realise that ...
You find it insulting they subtitle people speaking English with accents that people outside the UK or non native English speakers might struggle to understand? You have a sheltered life man lol.
mate I'm scottish and have difficulty understanding folk from dundee lol.
I'm from Bangladesh I definitely can't understand them, you do need to realise the video isn't only for English speakers.
Mate I'm scottish and can easily understand it haha
Some people are hard of hearing and need subtitles.
The only solution is social care- enforced at a camp/hotel/controlled environment for the addicts. Then strict policing of drug pushers and dealers. Then social care in terms of employment and helping the addicts stuck in this culture to develop self-worth and education through an active, controlled programme. I'm afraid doctors prescribing legal drugs are nearly as much a problem as the illegal drugs- How many people do you know have been prescribed valium, anti-depressants etc, when a slight change in diet to include magnesium supplements and fresh air and exercise is possibly all that is needed- but big pharma is not interested in that when there are profits from a straining NHS is it?..... The Government, including Westminster and especially the tin-pot SNP one have a lot to answer for. The addicts can only do it for themselves, but then only if a support mechanism is there to guide them. 'Support' an oft used term for yet more talk- in this case, it needs real comprehensive action as clearly no one in power gives a damn about these people.
In other words, bring back National Service. (I should know, I started off in the Black Watch.)
@@Jonathanbegg nice one- although I think that fine organisation is now known as ‘The Watch of Colour….’
NOW if the police went after the BIG BOYS them there family's would be at risk and they know I know it that's why they haven't cleaned up dundee
They need to invest in proper treatment centres for those people addicted to street benzodiazepine "cocktail" pills. The amount these people are taking could easily lead to convulsions and death upon immediate cessation. It has to be a gradual process of controlled dose reduction. As a group of drugs, benzodiazepines are far far more difficult to come off than heroin or cocaine. It can take many months to recover or even years in some cases.
In my personal experience because I always like opioids more and was addicted to opioids first, coming off of benzos was easy. Not to say I didn't like benzos, noo far from it *loved them* . Two times I took benzos for several weeks without even thinking our realising I was physically addicted. But as soon as I realized I got some weaker ones (Diazepam, Alprazolam) and steadily dosed down. After that I took them a couple of more times and never got physically hooked anymore, just didn't want it. I guess my case is a kind of stranger one, like the same thing with alcohol for me. Drank every day atleast a bottle (700ml 30-33%) for about a whole year, then dosed down and quit. Also never got hooked again, and today I'm drinking a beer every couple of days at most but have no desire to *really* drink again. But when it comes to opioids... oh well almost 10 years and still seemingly not able to not take them. But I'm now in a healthier mental state (strange, now that I'm chronically ill and have a 50% chance of dying to this), I'm doing light workouts every now and then and currently cut my dose exactly by 61%. Tomorrow it will be 68%. Maybe I will make it this time, time will tell but slowly I really want another life (addicted since im 12 to this shxt and I want to accomplish atleast something with my remaining life).
I wish luck to all the people out there, if you struggle and want to talk just comment and we will exchange some details to a different platform if ya want (to all the addicts struggling)
Literally saw that first ginger girl dropping off gear to another girl outside the wellgate the day before yesterday. These people won’t change. Don’t want to. No incentive to.
If you're really, really honest with yourself, you'll admit that you don't give a monkeys about what any of these people do to themselves. What DOES bother you is: risk to your on personal safety (i.e. getting mugged), risk to people e.g. your kids that you do actually care about (don't want them drawn into it), effect on personal property (getting burgled), effect on the urban environment (druggies and their parephenalia are an eyesore), and burden on the taxpayer. You don't care about them. At all. Which is precisely why they will always be with us: a reminder of an atomised, individualised, amoral, disintegrating modern world that doesn't care.
they are adults and made their choice.
@@beaulieuc8910 on Death Row, the authorities are currently discussing a reprieve for some lifers on grounds of diminished responsibility. This is due to neuroscience showing that the pre-frontal cortex is stunted due to neglect and abuse in childhood and therefore their ability to ‘choose’ and consider consequences is severely impaired. Grinding poverty has also been shown to impair a person’s ability to think straight. Some people have lives that are more messed up than you could ever possibly imagine. Just count your lucky stars you’re not one of them.
And they move in on women on drugs A lot of men in the the house a female child naked running around now tell me police have not seen this
the way that our society has treated addiction has resulted in COUNTLESS deaths and wasted potential... we are WAY behind the "eight ball" (pun intended) .... drug use is a part of the human experience... its not going to go away.. EVER... we need harm reduction and early education.... i hope things change 🙏
"...brutal austerity program..."?
You mean that intop of the NHS, dentist, copsm criminal justice, free money, housing, council tax, then a pension etc, you think that the Tories are to blame for trying to reduce the national debt so that the counrty remains a place to invest, and the debt is not passed on to future generations?
Btw, Lots of help need to pick fruit that is rotting in the fields round Dundee, while grown adults like to get high and who demand a free life for life.
Perhaps a day working in the fields? No work ethic is a big part of the problem.
Nicola sturgeon claims …she improved Scotland…… Four cities in Scotland to Shepherd… to Pastor … I never saw Sturgeon on our streets …not once … Bless the government of Scotland and police and courts and teachers and faith …. Lord help Scotland… We are so desperate for your help ….
Dundee is in Scotland, isn't it? I like the Scottish accent even I don't understand what they're talking.
Has fentanyl largely replaced heroin in the UK as it has in North America?
Or, is heroin still readily available on the streets?
I live in Dundee and would kinda know about this scene, no it hasn't heroin is still largely available but I'd say its a matter of time
@user-ny1fq5xb8k I hope that fentanyl never hits your shores.
If you think heroin is bad, fentanyl makes it look relatively safe.
In the last two years, Canada has been over 16,000 overdose deaths.
We have a tiny population compared to the UK too.
There's nothing else to do in Dundee
@@thery__guy9361 na there’s no really
@@thery__guy9361 name 5 things to do
Get a job, do charity work, start your own business, help others and you'll help yourself
Absolutely ridiculous nonsense. Nothing to do!!
Be accountable for your own stupidity! Get a job
@@axelstewart3392 easy to say when you can’t get a job it’s not easy getting work in Dundee. Easier to make money on the streets
Three years on from this depressing video and you’ll find that Dundee Council has money to waste on talking lamp posts and bus shelters so that those citizens of Dundee not out of their brains on drugs can address their concerns about climate change to a ruddy robotic voice.
Form of punishing themselves..the same way as some cut themselves and feel better. Very sad
Dundee is an absolute shithole. Poverty and drug-abuse is status quo with generational poverty being the standard expectation. Chances of achieving any form of social mobility are low. Depressing place.
It's got a boat and a crap museum though
@@grahamblack1961 Brilliant! Let's flood the town with migrants and hipsters, and make everything half-decent in town cost an absolute fortune!
SNP doing nothing as usual & the Dundee people will vote for them again.
Please be assured all addicts that there are many folk that love you all ❤
It’s always someone else’s fault
Agree. It's a person's own fault getting involved with drug's! People must be accountable for their own actions
No, society needs to be held accountable for the ways it makes people behave. Choice is an element of behavior, but reactive behavior comprises a large part of what choices people are able to make.
Addiction is a disability, and disabilities are not a choice, they are a reaction to the problem of the way we behave and operate on a much grander scale.
Yup
It's all over UK no just ddee
Come on any opioid is addictive just like heroin
Follow the ingredients and stamp the elezotam
Thts 💩 this video was posted over a year ago and dundees probarly 100 times worse ! Ive grew up in dundee and from ive been a teenager that is all ive seen is addicts everyware ! Get a rehab built and stop feeding them methadone , and help they poor people out !
Methadone is necessary for rehab. It's easier to taper off, etc. Heroin causes SEVERE, potentially lethal over doses. Methadone is necessary for recovering addicts
Blaming a pregnancy and childbirth as a reason why she's addicted??? Wow! BS
I love looking at these people. People who can't take blame on why they're addicts.
Ooohh! Don't hiss at me. I'm one too. But I don't blame anyone. Not doctors, not parents. I take the blame myself. I know how it feels and I liked it and I wanna continue to have that feeling. Just like them. Nobody is force feeding them.
Your government would rather spend money, for one day in October, 🎆 = more than💀
Nobody cares and quite right
You have choices and you make your own choices so dont blame others for your own life choices.
Addiction is not a choice, it is a disability.
Disabilities are the results of outside factors imposing inwardly on the life of an individual, creating problems which would not arise in those of a neurotypical nature.
It's very easy to spout off about choice, but I'd love to know what choices you've made that have lead your life to be so incomparably fantastic
@@TheGiggadude I don't agree with you, I was an addict. It started off with a motorcycle accident when I was in Canada and the doctor prescribed me oxycodone, I was prescribed it many times before that and nothing ever came of it. But this time I couldn't work so I took my pills and watched movies, soon I needed more pills and more pills and than I figured these pills are too weak. Thats when I tried heroin.... bottom line, IT WAS MY CHOICE, I don't blame the doctor I don't blame the motorcycle. I blame myself!!!!! Same thing with getting clean, I DID IT MYSELF!!!!!
I find this documentary repulsive.not going to name people,but most people that are tackling the drug crises are still out there heads on the stuff too.wouldnt be surprised if the dealing goes down at the very place they are ment to go to get clean.dundees system is a joke,police work with the criminals,the drug workers are sacked out there heads on the very drugs they are ment to be helping people to get off.all I can say is pitiful
Subtitles are a wee bit patronising.
Bring back national service.
Aye good idea,let's send a bunch of bag-heads running around someone else's country with a gun,what could possibly go wrong?
Send them directly tae the poppy fields 😆
Maybe if the went after the dealers which the police do not do get the .money of the big boys not low l lieing FRUIT then plenty money to fund the vunreable
oh well.. if you're so smart about explaining all the reasons why ..
then why dont you use some of that energy and live a normal life- with a job.
That girl can't make decisions. She needs the strength and wisdom of a man in her life.
or a proper woman
Stfu lmao. "A proper man". ANYONE left to their own devices since 13, or with the obvious trauma of most people in this video will not make the same decisions as you and I
I have lived here all of my life (39 years)...and it has always been like this as far back as I can remember, people need to want the help in order to get "clean"...and people here don't want that help, its as simple as that...and to say it is not choice to become and addict is crazy in itself, of course its a choice...I don't wake up in the morning and say "oh, I think i'll do some heroin today, and maybe some cocaine tomorrow if the going is good"...it is a choice!...
Its a choice so much as you have the choice to make, but if there is no other option readily presented to you, then no, there is no choice.
People take the best that they are given, and if what surrounds you is addiction, poverty, homelessness, then there really are no seemingly better options than drugs.
Absolutely choice on the part of the individual plays a huge role in getting clean and starting to USE a given substance, but substance abuse and addiction are both complex disabilities. In the case of disability, outward societal factors are allways to blame first, before the actions of the individual.
Oh aye, if only it was as easy as that. The vast majority of people that are addicts (alcohol, drugs, etc) are self-medicating some sortof mental health issue or trauma. It's such a difficult issue for people to face. But you seem to have the answer. Can you phone round all the addiction serviced and let them know you got it figured out? Ta.
Please go and watch Dr gabor mate and educate yourself on the link between childhood trauma and addiction.
Niver goin bach tih Dundee.
I live here and honestly 😢 please leglise cannabis 😢 14 funerals in 6 years 🙏 if these people had an organic way to soothe their pain theybwluld still be here along with the 1308 people we lost to drugs last year, dont get me started
T3
Pathetic excuses
It is a choice,
Full of druggies