[Jessica.]

It looks like a brownish powder in one of its forms, there is also black tar heroin, you heat it and it melts into a liquid, you then pour it into a syringe and inject it. Also you can put it on a spoon/tinfoil and put a flame under it, inhale the smoke as in smoking. It smells kinda spicy.

Horrible drug.

[Callum]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

It looks like a brownish powder in one of its forms, there is also black tar heroin, you heat it and it melts into a liquid, you then pour it into a syringe and inject it. Also you can put it on a spoon/tinfoil and put a flame under it, inhale the smoke as in smoking. It smells kinda spicy.

Horrible drug.

Oh sounds awful - I take it you've been involved with heroin yourself then?

[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by Callum

Oh sounds awful - I take it you've been involved with heroin yourself then?

No I just live in a really bad area. Lots of drugs and gang crime.

[Callum]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

No I just live in a really bad area. Lots of drugs and gang crime.

Oh right I see, that is sad. Do you plan on moving in the future then?

[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by Callum

Oh right I see, that is sad. Do you plan on moving in the future then?

Ya hopefully
I suppose growing up here has educated me really. I wouldn't even touch a glass of alcohol or smoke a fag.

[Callum]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

Ya hopefully
I suppose growing up here has educated me really. I wouldn't even touch a glass of alcohol or smoke a fag.

That is so good to hear - I've never wanted to smoke ever in my life, haven't had the problem of passive smoking neither as not many people smoke where I live or if they do it's all done behind closed doors. Thankfully, nobody in my family who I see reguarly smoke.

But to be from an area where lots of people smoke/drink etc. and not want to do both because of it - that is so much more of an achievement.

[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by Callum

That is so good to hear - I've never wanted to smoke ever in my life, haven't had the problem of passive smoking neither as not many people smoke where I live or if they do it's all done behind closed doors. Thankfully, nobody in my family who I see reguarly smoke.

But to be from an area where lots of people smoke/drink etc. and not want to do both because of it - that is so much more of an achievement.

[Claymores]

Watch Trainspotting Callum

As part of my 1st degree, the thesis was about the impact of health rehabilitation clinics and government health campaigns. I centred it on exactly the part of Edinburgh that the book and movie were based upon. I soon learned the futility of the folks' situations and why heroin became an almost logical choice when no prospect of employment, no hopes and sod-all to do all day.

Trainspotting tries in it's way to depict the dire situation and hopelessness.