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I totally agree with this but in my country compared with 20 years ago there has actually been a significant decline in the use of controlled drugs, NPS and even alcohol amongst the bulk of young people’ particularly those who are better educated; we’ve had 10 years of zero tolerance policies aimed at the music / entertaintment industries and the associated drugs culture; and cops have been provided with upgraded and effective surveillance equipment. Overt drugs users are now increasingly a minority in my region; the other youth judge them as chavs and will even tip off the Police if they see folk taking hard drugs in the street.

Although I did in my teens have to put up with the sterotypical “Asian parenting” to some extent I otherwise was always treated well – and was more into music than drugs until the 1990s. And I realise now Dad took (legal) drugs simply to cope with the responsibilities of raising two kids to young adulthood (he only made it to 57 unfortuately) and working two jobs (in his final week of life he made peace with me as he realised it was only the flawed legal system that meant I got arrested whereas he could pick up his prefferred substances via the NHS…)

In 2006 I moved from one region of England to another and noticed how the remaining ravers have changed; they were seeking oblivion and escape rather than enlightenment and weren’t even trying to create a wider alternative society (such as squats/shared party spaces, hackerspaces etc).

Howver I notice many the same problems amongst middle class kids (even in other European nations) who do not have bad family backgrounds and do not take drugs at all and only drink moderately – I do wonder if all those poxy smartphone apps, creepy online marketing, the tech gender divide and facebook etc are contributing to this lack in self esteem and dumbing down.

@tryptameanie 984049 wrote:

Recently I tried to get referred back to the mental health team. Saw a nurse and 1 mention of drugs and that was it, basically told to fuck off and had a sneering nurse tell me that over the phone and when I complained (the nurse had already ran off to tell his boss) his boss was a total insensitive cunt. He sharp changed his tone when I asked for his bosses name, which he tried his damnedest to keep from me and egen when I got her name, he refused to give me her contact details, in the end he said he had her contact details but wasn’t giving me them. After thanking him for wasting my time and putting the phone down I googled his boss and emailed her. She was pretty pissed off and all of a sudden those fucking morons from earlier, concede someone needs to see me and now I have a worker coming in just over 2 weeks (he got hell for that when he rang) and he’s gonna get hell when he comes here.

The worst part of this is it is very likely that those nurses are all English and around the same age as ourselves; unfortunately the NHS is too large and complex to have enough resources to dip sample phone calls for service quality or to obtain valid evidence like call data records whilst also complying with privacy safeguards as they employ very few full time IT staff and contractors cannot be trusted. (NHS still use old proprietary systems which make call recording difficult and expensive)

I encounter many people in British healthcare who might be intelligent and qualified but clearly never really wanted to do the job in the first place and who have no real empathy for the patients – the ones who are genuinely seem to be fairly religious, of foreign ancestry or older than 40 (often all three).

it is very likely this lot are taking the opportunity to get their revenge on the generation who “partied whilst they studied and worked hard” and unfortunately they are a bit more subtle than the 1970s when the NHS mental health were as bad as 1970s/1980s cops (my uncle was one of the first NHS managers who dared to challenge this attitude).

one of the science unis here did a survey of political attitudes amongst middle class people in East England and found over half of them were openly prepared to state they felt that “European style” social democracy that Britain has tried to implement with the EU costs too much and they would rather have a more authoritarian government system like that of Malaysia, Singapore and some Middle Eastern countries whilst at the same time these nations are trying to move in the other direction.