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A HEARTBROKEN mum whose son died of an overdose has said it is as easy to buy drugs in Swindon as a bag of sweets'.
Scott Rose, pictured, died of a heroin overdose in 2006.
His mum Julie Ann Rose, 48, a mortgage advisor from Covingham, says since her son's death she has seen that Swindon is in the grip of a "raging drug culture''.
The comments came after an inquest into her son's death.
She said people in Swindon do not appreciate that the teenagers using heroin, crack and cocaine are not just junkies, they are also educated young people from good families who have been lured into the drug culture.
"Scott's problem was able to grow partially because I didn't see the warning signs," she said. advertisement
"I thought the problem was far away from our family.
"When Scott first got into it in his early twenties you didn't see the druggies on the streets like you do nowadays.
"That has exploded and now I can spot one a mile away.
"More and more teenagers are out there buying drugs, especially cocaine, that they buy like they pick up a bag of sweets.
"And the warning signs are not being seen by parents.
"It is a real problem here in Swindon and around the UK, it's not acceptable.
"Scott was a fine young man with great potential as a skilled carpenter.
"He worked hard for four years at Swindon College and left with his City and Guilds qualifications.
"He worked on many projects but sadly fell into a world of drugs with people he associated with.
"From that point on his life spiralled out of control, doing anything to get money to buy drugs day-to-day."
She added that if her son's mistakes and experiences can help one other person get off heroin then his death would not have been in vain.
"The damage that drugs do to individuals and their families is mind blowing," she said.
"I would call for harder penalties for drug dealers, they are quite simply mass murderers.
"We are simply far too soft on these people.
"To all you young people out there and anyone who is mixed up in this horror, my message is this: drugs are not cool, they are not acceptable, they will make your life a misery, if not kill you, with either mental problems or very serious infections.
"Scott is not with us and that is unbearable.
"So please stay away, just say no, and keep saying no."
The coroner at Scott's inquest last week found that the 28-year-old died from his dependence on drugs after failing to kick his habit at two rehabilitation clinics in Hastings and Holland.
"More and more teenagers are out there buying drugs, especially cocaine, that they buy like they pick up a bag of sweets.
Well that's a good point. Cocaine gives you that invincible rush, that feel good, can do attitude. In this world, power and success are sexy, wisdom and humility are not.
And that's why cocaine will always remain attractive. Too bad there's no alternatives offered, like giving school leavers worthwhile jobs, or aprenticeships, or hey, life changing drugs thats helped everyone who takes it to have a coming of age, an epihany. Cocaine gives that feeling that's marketed right at the beginning to kids, it gives the feeling of success, confidence, the top of the world feeling. A very tempting high.
Treating these drug users like criminals is the worst thing possible. People always turn to their vice when stressed out. And let's say it's been for a while, so that makes it okay to arrest someone, deprive them of their comfort and stick them into a prison that's guarenteed to make that person bitter, restenful, and aware of the worst society has to offer? Nevermind that rehab is cheaper, when these people come out I guarentee you they'll be back for smack or crack or meff. Imprisonment is not the solution, it doesn't help at all, and it's a drain on the taxpayers (if you're a resident of the UK, unlike some countries that run for profit slave camps/prisons)
-------------------- Wiccan_Seeker said: slide down a pole than with your legs spread and using your pussy as a brake. Ask the fire department
Drugs aren't anything like picking up a bag of sweets. Maybe for some cracked out nigger in the ghetto. But when towns and cities haven't already gone to shit its nothing as easy as buying fucking sweets.
actually where I live (California) drugs are amazingly easy to get. I remember one day in the summer back when none of my friends were 18 yet, and we really wanted some swisher sweets for some reason (ghetto I know), but we had no way of getting them, but we had at least 8 people we could have got weed, coke, shrooms etc from. This is just another problem prohibition causes, because dealers don't care about I.D.; they're just as likely to sell to a 68 year old man as an 11 year old. With regulation this would nearly stop, but we all know that many clerks just don't care and still sell alcohol and cigarettes to minors, but at least it would be greatly alleviated.
-------------------- I am still and forever learning
Apollyphelion said: You can learn A LOT from shitting in the right set and setting!
If you know your sons doing heroin and its as easy to get as candy why not do something about it.
How fucking stupid, now you speak out. Now she decides that her neighborhood is being strangled by drugs.
How about when your son was slowly killing himself? People are so fucking stupid it hurts me.
-------------------- He did not laugh as his eyes stopped in awareness of the earth around him. His face was like a law of nature-a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint.
If you wake up at a different time in a different place, can you wake up a different person?
Cf. A.C. Doyle "I'll rise above this, you can't keep me down, for I am Divine, and I know it all too well."
This was written like an autographed statement for a MADD pamphlet. Maybe we should organize ourselves, those of us against the drug war. I've seen many websites, but they only seem to be in place to placate those who would otherwise be severely pissed off. Let's napalm the local news, in all districts, with logistical counters and continue to push a moderate drug policy toward the higher-reaches of mass-media. Does this exist? If so, why have I NOT read about it. Anyone up for battle? I'm down to start a revolution...
if its really that easy I am going to the UK for some of that
-------------------- "If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise." - Aldous Huxley GIVE ME OPIATES OR GIVE ME DEATH
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