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Addicts turn to diazepam as a heroin alternative



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Published Date: 03 September 2008
THE tranquilliser once known as "mother's little helper" is growing in popularity among drug addicts as an alternative to heroin, it was claimed today.
Charity DrugScope said larger numbers of people are abusing diazepam, also known as Valium.

Addicts are combining it with strong alcohol or methadone in a potentially lethal cocktail to ease the effects of withdrawal from crack cocaine. It may also be growing as a cheap option to heroin, as heroin supplies have suffered a slump in purity.





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  • Last Updated: 03 September 2008 10:08 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Cynicaltalk,

03/09/2008 14:06:22
Why not start taking weedkiller instead?
2

Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 03/09/2008 17:39:31
Or better still, drink a pint of glycerine, then half a pint of nitric acid, then jump up and down for a bit.

The effect is explosive!
3

Conan the Librarian™,

03/09/2008 22:57:07
This is news?

Diazepam has been used for years as a substitute for H.

That's why it was put into gelatine capsules to prevent injection. Unfortunately the "jellies" were cooked up and injected in the usual manner.

Resulting in cooling gelatine clogging veins and causing gangrene.
4

thibor,

musselburgh 22/09/2008 00:38:19

#1&2 Your comments are banal, stupid, and callous. What a pair of pr**ks .
5

From Berlin With Love,

berlin 01/12/2008 15:49:06
Its very sad to see that the only comments posted onto this site are from what it seems to me uneducated and very naive people who have probably never had to deal with something as life threatening as Addiction. These people should do a little more research into the subject before they come with their not very intelligent commentaries. Rather than calling each other silly names or suggesting that one should drink something like weedkiller we should be dicussing the cause and effect this problem has on our lives, as well as those who are living it.

Diazepam has been a problem for over 20 years. Many teenagers, who would have been over 30 now, died as the result of Dangerous cocktails. I myself used to take huge amounts of Valium mixed with Temazepam and Methadone. Unlike many others, I survived. I was very lucky.

So the questions that should be asked are, Why are the people taking these legally distributed drugs?

It is a fundamental flaw in todays society to think that it is just people from problem areas who have this problem. Many have real problems with addiction. Where it comes from is almost a mystery. Many have said its because of an unhappy childhood, that they were not loved or because of peer pressure amongst many other reasons. We shouldn´t forget though that there are also addicts out there who had wonderfull parents and experienced love from their families and came from so called good neighbourhoods. So before you all think that everyone who takes drugs should be instantly tagged as junky losers, think again. Some of you out there wouldn´t believe it when you see what kind of people take Heroin, Crack Cocaine, Diazepam and all the other addictive drugs on the market today.

So people, please think before you speak. Not all addicts are bad people, they have just lost themselves in the drug.

 

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