Party Vibe

to be fair the doctor wasn’t being overly scaremongering and its not always “dodgyd drugs”. The use of these drugs does affect the immune system more than folk realise, and cause a lot of minor illnesses to become unpleasant (but not life threatening). also they are often stored in unsanitary places (not just inside humans but hidden in loo cisterns etc or other areas of a toilet)

I still remember in 1992 during the “good old days of rave” how the local GP surgery would be full up by midweek with everyone in their teens/20s with all sorts of nasties. the spike in illness numbers amongs the youth (as well as a massive rise in mental health issues with youngsters being sectioned and even suicides) was eventually reported to the Police and triggered one of many purges on drug dealing and use in the Thames Valley area (where I then lived).

Nowadays the effect of party drugs has been overshadowed by the declining physical and mental health of young people (due to lack of exercise, overdependence on motor cars, increased pressures leading to mental health problems) and worse a trend towards interpersonal violence. (drug use is actually a minor issue and relatively safe for moderate users) But the combined “toxic environment” for younger people is serious enough for organisations like the UN to express concerns that in richer countries its actually wiping out the gain in childrens survival rates caused by public healthcare and better care of expectant mums.

lol – unfortunately I don’t have the tolerance to fix people rather than electronic kit (either the studying or putting up with the fools you get both as patients and colleagues within somewhere like a hospital) – but a lot of my family work in healthcare and I am in an environment where I can get hold of all sorts of healthcare information. Even so and in spite of all efforts to convince them otherwise, its not uncommon for patients where I work to mistakenly think I am medical staff (there are a lot of people working there with SE Asian ancestry)..

its an old folks home (or whatever the PC name for one is as some patients aren’t that old) though our biggest site is essentially the modern equivalent of the village hospitals and the patients are OK if a little confused, I can understand why this happens.

The problem in your area unfortunately is the cost of tolerating the drink/drugs based night time economyAlso there are a lot of druggies who overdo it and end up being treated by youths the same age but what gave up their spare time to study and are working weekends

So it unsurprisingly makes them judgemental and I don’t blame them (the NHS should however look out for this in staff and move them to other duties to give them a rest from the frontline) – many people are being taken to hospital who quite frankly belong in the police cells instead and need punishment as well as treatment.

Even then I don’t think that gives the cops the right to knock them around like the old days, they should be just left there to sober up so they lose their whole weekend, and given a bollocking/caution the first time it happens, if they keep doing it then fines/court/banned from town as appropriate.

this is what they do round here and by and large it works although I think its gone a bit too much to the restrictive side yet because it tolerates alcohol more than pills and authorities cave in too much to nimbys what whine about loud music so noisy but less harmful events like small (legal) raves get restricted.

we should follow the Dutch method properly, accept that most people will drink and maybe even take drugs but set stronger social boundaries (the doe normaal ethos – i.e nothing wrong with having a drink or getting high but no need to advertise it to half the community…