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 Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] 
#8869775 - 09/03/08 12:44 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Drug users 'turning to diazepam'
September 2, 2008 - BBC
 An increasing number of drug users are turning to the tranquilliser diazepam, a drugs information charity claims.
DrugScope says the popularity of diazepam - formerly known as Valium - is rising among drug users in 15 out of 20 UK towns and cities it surveyed.
Diazepam is being used as a heroin substitute, and often taken alongside alcohol and methadone to ease the comedown from crack cocaine, it said.
But combining it with other drugs leads to a high risk of overdose, it warned.
The annual survey questioned 100 drug services and police forces in 20 towns and cities across the UK.
Diazepam is a Class C drug in the UK, prescribed to reduce anxiety and tension and legally available on prescription only.
On the street it is nicknamed "blues" or "vallies" and a 10mg tablet is available for £1, Drugscope found.
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Its rising popularity is thought to be down partly to its cheapness, partly to it becoming more easily accessible - and partly because of a drop in the availability and quality of heroin.
Diazepam from legitimate sources in Europe is being smuggled in, and it is also being bought over the internet from India, Pakistan and Thailand. Some of the latter is counterfeit, the charity warned.
While 300,000 diazepam pills were seized by police and customs between July 2003 and June 2006, in the period between July 2006 and June 2008 seizures rose to two million.
Harry Shapiro, DrugScope's director of communications, said there had also been an "unexpected heroin shortage".
"Local fluctuations have occurred despite the bumper harvest in Afghanistan, which illustrates the complexity of the illicit drug market," he said.
But mixing diazepam with other drugs, especially alcohol, is a "potentially lethal combination", he said.
The drug is also highly addictive, and withdrawal can take months.
'Complex' drug market
In other trends, DrugScope said "poly" drug use - taking combinations of drugs such as alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy - was a significant problem among some young people.
It said the price of street drugs remained relatively stable over the last 12 months.
It said cocaine was still popular, with a "two-tier" market in which low quality powder was sold for less than higher quality powder.
In the ecstasy market, there was an increase in the amphetamine-like drug BZP replacing MDMA as the ingredient in pills.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is considering the drug BZP in order to provide advice to the government on its classification.
And for cannabis, commercially home-grown skunk dominated the market in many areas, with users finding it hard to obtain lower strength resin or imported herbal cannabis.
Drugscope also found that in many areas, young Class A users who could not afford heroin or cocaine at any one time were turning to alcohol such as super-strength lager, cheap vodka and cheap white wine.
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: veggie]
#8871252 - 09/03/08 10:34 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Uk has some cheap drugs
No wonder why everyone is fucked up around there
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: ComputerTekGuy]
#8871295 - 09/03/08 10:45 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Those prices are a little steep. Everything they've listed is actually cheaper where I live!
The problem with UKs drugs are they are complete fucking shite.
Cut to fuck. Even the weed here is cut - they steal the pollen and spray bulking powders on it.
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: Ego Death]
#8873498 - 09/03/08 06:57 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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9 British pounds is 15.60 US dollars. 15.60USD/g is 0.0156 USD/mg for amphetamines. This would make 30 mg pill of amphetamine less than fifty cents.
This is worthless.
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: poeticoddity]
#8875732 - 09/04/08 07:07 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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The amphetamine here has been estimated at 10% pure.
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: Ego Death]
#8877008 - 09/04/08 12:07 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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those prices look high to me particularly if the drugs are fairly cut.
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: ScavengerType]
#8877097 - 09/04/08 12:25 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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$20 for a gram of K!!! cut or not...ME-OW!
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: Newport101]
#8877404 - 09/04/08 01:30 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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actually 20 pounds is $35.35 USD
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: ScavengerType]
#8878137 - 09/04/08 04:10 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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£51 for an ounce of hash 
wow
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: NobodyImportant]
#8878265 - 09/04/08 04:35 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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More like £40 and what they dont tell you is its about 1.5-3% THC content  Its called soap bar and could barely even be called hash. Its more of a joke. The guys that make it literally shit in the press.
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: Ego Death]
#8878468 - 09/04/08 05:20 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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gross
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"Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?"
"The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God. Montesquieu said, "There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of God." And I begin to feel that’s true. The shareholder is the excuse for everything."
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 Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: ScavengerType]
#8879271 - 09/04/08 07:30 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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damn i had no idea the drug market was so ridiculous over there...I wonder why that is? It doesent make much sense to me i wonder if its geographic....
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: Newport101]
#8880711 - 09/05/08 04:00 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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We are a small island with a high demand. Most of our drugs are imported.
People tend to take what they can get here. If you can only get soap bar or sprayed weed then you will still buy it because it is cheap, available and has flooded the market. The few suppliers of quality bud or hash know they can charge a fortune for it and it is in low supply so is bought up fast.
Coke has had to come from Peru so by the time it reaches the streets here it is rediculously cut but people still buy it because its in fashion.
I think the quality slowly declined after the 70's and it just kept declining as the importers realised the people would still buy it up no matter what quality it was as they have no choice.
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Re: Drug users 'turning to diazepam' [UK] [Re: Ego Death]
#8890507 - 09/07/08 10:25 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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hmm thats interesting thank you for the insight
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