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Originally Posted by Cherie

34 to 50 age group so we are not talking kids, so what is going wrong

In short, that is the age group who were worst affected when their parents were ****ed over by Thatcher.

It’s a slight over-simplification but it’s a huge part of the picture.

Late 80’s, Thatcher policies utterly decimated Scottish industrial/mining towns, the lurch into poverty saw many who were teens/kids at the time end up falling into a subculture of heroin abuse, and those people are now middle aged and dying (or descending into psychosis).

That’s why the problem is biggest in Glasgow (which was a heavily industrialised city) and smaller ex-mining towns.

Obviously addiction still happens in younger age groups but heroin, specifically, disproportionately affects that age range. And it’s the opiates that’ll kill you. Take a bit too much over the course of 24h and you’ll just go to sleep and stop breathing.

To claim that it’s the SNP is utter nonsense, these people were shooting up LONG before the rise of the SNP quite obviously.