Party Vibe

Also one reason behind the recent USA EDM boom where so many European event promotions companies sold out to American buyers was the European folk who set them up are reaching their 40s and 50s and getting tired of dealing with the costs of harm reduction initiatives and licensing requirements for events in Northern Europe. These are now much less common than they were before and tend to happen in deprived coastal areas so any increase in drugs related incidents can be pushed under the carpet.

I even suspect its a low level distraction technique for young Americans; Tony Blair briefly tried the same in Britain during the late 1990s (which is why we had Britpop and a boom in EDM events) but abandoned it by the early 2000s due to binge culture encouraging youngsters to take drugs on top of alcohol (whilst not being courageous enough to push forward real harm reduction).

That led to all sorts of carnage that the NHS soon noticed and and a massive public backlash from the older middle classes across the political spectrum.

I remember Obama saying more than once he greatly admired Tony Blair and there are similar elements in his leadership methods especially his embracing of media and music personalities (although I at least credit Mr Obama with a better taste in music).

Even in the UK there has only recently been a panic about party drug deaths since middle class young teens (especially young girls) have been keeling over; whilst hypocritically young adult men and women barely a few years older who suffer any harm from drugs just get written off as junkies etc and their parents are often too ashamed to take part in harm reduction campaigns as they fear being judged and abused in mainstream and social media.

@tryptameanie 985870 wrote:

Drug deaths hit record levels | The Independent

If u can find the drug death statistics from my country from the 80’s to today, u would be surprised how the drug strategy worked well since the introduction around 1994 of the four pillars which was :
1) prevention
2) therapy
3) harm reduction
4) law enforcementlevel politic (NOT THE BEST OF THE 4 PILLARS :biggreen: )

MaPaDro III, the third package of measures drawn up by the federal government to tackle drug-related problems,
outlines the existing state of affairs and the underlying principles of drugs policy and on this basis defines the federal government’s undertakings in this area for the next few years.
At the end of the 1980s it was largely pressure from the public in response to the open drugs scene which forced politicians to act.
As a result, the federal government embarked on a policy consisting of four pillars of prevention, therapy, harm reduction and law enforcement,
and implemented two packages of measures.

Sources; Federal Office of Public Health – The federal government?s third package of measures to reduce drug-related problems (MaPaDro III) 20062011

Some pictures taken in the late 80’s to middle 90’s : I was just 20 years old and was going there a few times a week to buy drugs

These pictures made the news around the world and is the beginning of a real will to help the addicted people and try to manage that growing
problem in my country using an other approach than only repression. The politic woman (Ruth Dreyfuss) said these kind of words which became symbolic :

“Look at these young people. They are not criminals, but our children which doesn’t need repression but help and care”

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