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veggie
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[UK] Children 'needing colostomy bags' due to drug use
#29003182 - 10/28/24 08:56 AM (5 days, 16 hours ago) |
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Children 'needing colostomy bags' due to drug use October 28, 2024 - BBC
Ketamine use in Merseyside has "got so bad that young children are ending up with colostomy bags", a drug and alcohol support worker in Merseyside has warned.
Kelly Smith, from the Change, Grow, Live (CGL) recovery service in Kirkby, said use of the drug was "a massive problem and increasingly common".
She said the service, which covers Knowsley, was aware of young people using ketamine who were "not understanding what it is" and who were becoming dependent on it.
Speaking at the launch of an art project for addicts in recovery she said: "It’s got so bad that young children are ending up with colostomy bags and things like that because it does cause serious bladder issues."
Ms Smith added: "I think for a young person, they’re not necessarily aware of the lifelong impact that drug use can have on a person."
'A crutch'
Ketamine is a medication used by doctors and vets for pain control.
The latest government figures estimate that use of the drug in England and Wales has more than doubled since 2016.
In the under-25 age group, its use has more than tripled in the same period, the government said.
Chronic ketamine usage affects the lining of the bladder and can shrink it.
Kelly Smith was speaking at the opening of the We Got HeART (WGH) exhibition in a unit on St Chad's Parade in the town centre.
The art project, which aims to divert people away from substance use and into support services, is led by Merseyside Police and CGL Knowsley, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.
One of the artists exhibiting is Amanda Murphy who said she began to use alcohol as a "crutch" after a difficult period in her life.
She was referred to CGL after developing liver disease and is now in recovery.
“I was nervous when I first went in but they soon surrounded me and and showed me the love, as it were," she said.
Inspector Alan McKeon, from Merseyside Police’s Prevention Hub, said the project "truly shows the value of prevention and addressing the root causes of problems, not the symptoms of it".
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veggie
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Re: [UK] Children 'needing colostomy bags' due to drug use [Re: veggie]
#29003228 - 10/28/24 09:23 AM (5 days, 16 hours ago) |
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Probably BS. I'll need more evidence than a 'drug and alcohol support worker' said so.
Yes ketamine can damage the bladder. But I've never heard of young children being habitual users of ketamine.
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Re: [UK] Children 'needing colostomy bags' due to drug use [Re: veggie] 1
#29003345 - 10/28/24 11:44 AM (5 days, 14 hours ago) |
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Quote:
veggie said:
The art project, which aims to divert people away from substance use and into support services
A noble endeavor, but when mental health services are so underfunded, understaffed, and generally lacking in so many countries— the UK and other “first world” countries absolutely included— then what are people supposed to do? What “support services”? What about the ~1/3 of the population for whom antidepressants are ineffectual? What about the masses of people who desperately need a good therapist and can’t get one for myriad reasons? If the only realistic choice tonight is between a drink down your neck or a razor to your wrists, there isn’t actually much of a choice. I am so tired of the system refusing to acknowledge this and instead blaming the people who that very system has failed.
Yes, I’m preaching to the choir here on the Shroomery, but this magical unsupported bootstrap “let them eat cake” bullshit is as tiring as it is nonsensical.
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Re: [UK] Children 'needing colostomy bags' due to drug use [Re: veggie] 1
#29004493 - 10/29/24 10:27 AM (4 days, 15 hours ago) |
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Colostomy bags collect stool...
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Re: [UK] Children 'needing colostomy bags' due to drug use [Re: Holybullshit]
#29005409 - 10/30/24 05:10 AM (3 days, 20 hours ago) |
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After it eats through the bladder then it next eats through the intestines. Kids these days.
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