I lived in Dundee while I went to University there and I was so unaware of this problem until I saw it on the news one day and suddenly I started to see them everywhere. It was like a bubble burst. I hope they fix this problem. The people in Dundee were kind and so welcoming. I pray for their recovery.

I really respect the man at 14:00, it takes so much courage to get back on track after years off giving up. He's also very right about having a purpose.

I am on a 14 month wait for homeless accommodation. I was born in the UK, have worked over 17 years and suffered a relationship breakdown. If it were not for my friend I would be on the streets like these poor people. My city’s housing is way too expensive to rent and newer housing mainly applies to students and higher earners. People who look down there noses at these people need to appreciate that this can happen to anyone. Everyone has a different story and should not be thought of as a scrounging junkie who deserves nothing..

Part of the problem is attachment and the lack of meaningful attachments and a sense of belonging as the video states, purpose, love, to be valued, self esteem.

The simple reality is that it would be really difficult for an addict or alcoholic to get clean or sober if they are living on the street, not having a place to sleep, shelter from the elements, take care of nutritional and hygiene needs, etc.

Bless all those poor souls. They are our human brothers and sisters whom are suffering. Please get help before it's too late. 🙏

It's the feeling of meaningless. No constants, no solid rock to stand upon, you didn't know your Dad or you wish you didn't. You're just one of the siblings from your Mum's different 'baby Daddy's' and nobody cares if you go to school or not. We don't put our children first anymore. We don't stay with our spouse when it gets tough, *we are failing to give our children purpose and meaning.*

Since I cut off my alcohol addictions in Scots beer in my own place , and that old place wasn't good place to socialize , life started to get together ! Moving forward and forget about past

Nobody, NOBODY knows how they’d react if their whole world was taken from them in an instant. Drugs are sometimes all that a person thinks they have. Life can be so cruel.

We have Massive Problems from Drugs here in Scotland!

These people are statistics to anyone who knows no different.its happened within my close and extended family,four lives cut drastically short,and still it goes on and on.to each and everyone who has suffered the loss of loved ones through this scourge of our times,I feel for the loss.

I'm hearing really good things about Portugal

Proof that the SNP health minister hasn’t got a clue on a health crisis

So stupid that people automatically expect the government to fix all the problems. Such a helpless attitude.

Please be assured all addicts that there are many folk that love you all ❤

Once addicted to heroin it changes ur brain n its veey hard to get back to normal again.

The government should consider full drug decriminalisation. It worked in Portugal.

Nobody should live like that god bless them

Rest In Peace Cheryl. God bless

We need to all stand together everyone

When you put personal interest above than social interest, problem will bound to occur.

Being honest, kind doesn't mean being weak or soft ... Let "watch" say no and "calm and courage" say rejection, point to meaning and "protect the right" with Loved family members and everyone in society

This government should be ashamed off theself. 😡

You gotta want to help yourself, I been 7yr clean, never go back. I hole they get strong

Well said to the nurse so true.😢

The answer John is looking for is Dundee is a miserable place. Scotland obviously has a weather problem, but when a place is intrinsically miserable too, thats a double edged sword.

High unemployment, poverty and misery, no wonder some turn to drugs

I'm living proof that heroin can be beat,I'm 17 years clean

Give people a purpose in life and something to live for

That lady nurse is just an angel

I know these two, so sad.. Andy and Sheryl. Ahh, Dundee.

Funny how they blame street dealers for their daughters death. How can you blame the dealer it's not like the dealer made them addicted!

Awfully sad what your suffering I too have been waiting for a house for over a year and am have addiction problems I'm in my 40 s I feel disregard and ageing process makes it harder as the years go by. Good luck my friend

Until you realise that the problem isn't the availability. Its the criminalisation that pushes up potency and cleanliness of any drug. Things like putting up the minimum price of alcohol, pushes people to cheaper more dangerous alternatives as an example. It will never change because you can't see the real problem.

I know the feeling unfortunately

I thought she was Davina McCall

Such a pity all those deaths... There should be more help for those people.

Just watch trainspotting

Nippy is making it woes she just doesn't care about people only her self.

Doing a grand job SNP

Spot on.😮

There’s is a big heroin problem in Edinburgh aswell where there are scores of addicts living close to posh people which shows how big the social class divide is in Scotland

I'm from Brighton in Sussex & for many years we've had the tag of highest deaths from heroin in England if not uk. Looks like Dundee has the label now!

Leslie is a beautiful person and I think it's great that he started university.

no fuckin way would ah poison ma body wi that shite

It’s so depressing seeing this happening to our people. We need to adopt model from other countries where drug deaths are low and figure out what they are doing what we are not. Tbh, I think it the way we parent here. In other countries the breast feed way more, Scotland has the lowest rate in Europe, also we chip our babies out to nurseries at 2 yo, we give too much screen time to babies, we don’t co-sleep and properly attached to our babies here. Places like Spain and Germany were there is low drug deaths seem to be better at parenting. IMO, you should real some books by Gabor Mate.

The cycle of trauma from parent to child and back again, is one reason for the addiction starting. The drugs themselves keep them addicted. The thought process that an addict goes through isn't what a sober person goes through. It is thoughts that can make you want to end it all, rather than go through withdrawls. The shame of even being an addict keeps us wanting to keep the mind foggy. Sometimes it can just be circumstances. More mental health treatment is needed, but it would need to be available 24/7. Having a 6 month waiting list for an addict might be too late.

I'm from the borders 60 deaths from drugs this year in Scotland's smallest towns

i used to be a fire man and now im a scottish smack head. theres heroin in every street in scotland.

Susan Cheryl I miss u all so much ❤️ Leanne Ellington

In Portugal ALL drugs are legal however drugs related deaths in Scotland is 27 times higher.

Build a rehab village outside Dundee…. Not just a detox… remove the users from the city…the community…the drug dealers…other users …..over years, rebuild the person, and the faith, and purpose …. I campaign for this …while staying among the drug users …in Dundee… Edinburgh and Glasgow …primarily Dundee…… I’ve been full time since 2007…sitting among the serious drug deaths …and previous, I worked for 15 years among mental health charities…particularly the many suicidal and voice hearers ….. All the drug users need full rehabilitation…. Maturity….unplugging from all drugs ….

Academic studies have shown that drug addiction in Scotland has been rising since the early 1980's, due to unemployment. Thanks Mrs Thatcher.

I live in Grimsby and have seen a lot of people die including friends drugs and alcohol are killing a lot of people, its not just overdoses a lot die from health issues caused by drugs and alcohol would legalising heroin help ? I'm no expert but something needs to be done before other generations are sucked into the misery of addiction

Whole generation of 90s crew are gone,,Lots of my friends are gone RIP

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these poor mothers , its wild how little the world cares. world should not be this way

As someone below has mentioned, no one knows what has happened to a person to feel that is the best option they have left in life, for instance they have plans to end it all, they may be suidical and the only other option they see is to take the pain away before they end it, in that mind state is like tunnel vision, and once they have had it they want to keep going but only for the drug and the problems only get worse. if someone hasn't felt that kind of pain they will not understand it.

It's a war without end...

The street valium is very difficult to address. The tapering process takes months . Plus you have to find the right starting dose to start the long tedious process. And then being restricted to picking up from the chemist every other day for your tablets. Drs don't have time for this plus majority will relapse. You virtually have to live like a monk to get off valium. Far more complex than any other drug. I'm giving this from personal experience. You cannot cold turkey from Street valium. It's virtually impossible. You will die slowly from complete insomnia .

When your house is robbed, your garage robbed, your van robbed, your attacked physically by drug and alcohol users …stealing…shop lifting drink….meat ..attacking shop workers … stabbing and robbing each other….stealing peoples phones ..bags … Being elbowed in the face when worshipping in church …. Being threatened by blades and attack …. Having your home targeted with spray paint ..bricks and accusations of Beast by …..beastly behaviours….. The so called Junkies…who love their drugs..who lie and steal …. And rob helpers …and the elderly .. In China …..the Junk boats moved moved Opium …. And the Word describes the movement of Horrible Drugs …… The victims …..are traumatised by the selfishness of drug users ..and sellers and regular stealing …house robbing ..car breakers … violence…..

Sadly I have lived this loved this at times and lost most friends and partner too I just hoe one day I can work alongside helping others with my history x x 🌹 leanne Ellington

I've been an addict for years and I dont feel sorry for them. When you choose drugs over your children like some women I know and when you steal money from your parents when they do everything for you, including raising your kids you don't deserve respect. Specially when you was a spoiled child with a happy childhood. I only talk about what I know and people I know.

Give the youth of today a better chance in the future. Give our societies better support to stop them turning to drugs in their despair. The problem is the government does not allow their people freedom to live comfortably, They allow bills to be so costly that people are giving up even when they work for a living. Put the cost of living down and give them more money to help them into a better existence. Allow them to enjoy the money they work for and stop taxing everything. People are miserable and turn to substances to feel better but in the end it takes their lives.

Where are all these drugs come from?

Blaming the dealers is like blaming the brewery’s or the shops

I am Marion Ingrid Ahlfeld born in Dundee in 1965. Left school with nothing at 15 years old. Grew up in Kirkton Dundee. Fell pregnant at 21 in 1986 to a heroin addict. Who's girlfriend was dying of AIDS (no HIV then). That minister talking knows nothing. Dundee was in chaos then, but we did have support. HOUSING, (Whitfield) where I had a flat. Child and family support centres. Me now at 57? After a career as a Financial Director because at 21 I was a mature learner I went to University in Dundee (As I got a place for my daughter at the family centre when she was born)in Whitfield. (thats another story) The AIDS epidemic killed a lot of my drug taking friends. I watched them die.In Dundee. So to see this randomly in Berlin where I now live as a club owner is shocking. Its HOUSING first. Support for the addiction. AND people that know what they are talking about to offer that support. In my mind the Minister and the ex drug user now at University know nothing NOTHING about addiction in Dundee.....

Its not almost all the drug/alcohol deaths i know off which are many were 30 and below

So you´re saying drugs are bad, okay?

The overdoses in the States in the last couple years from fentanyl laced heroin makes this video look very tame.

Cumbernauld same

Sorted it woman.

Very sad. Society is letting these druggies down.

Whether other people agree or not...There just has to be a way and the means to stop the supply ...or at least significantly diminish the availability of the drugs.....I know, I know.... many people will argue that the war on drugs is not working........ but, that is not entirely true because if there were no enforcement and no effort to stop the supply and continual flow of the highly addictive drugs then obviously the situation would be much worse.....That being the case, then support the advocates that adamantly argue the governments should legalize all those highly addictive and often deadly drugs and learn what happens.....The users will not be criminalized and they will be less socially stigmatized over time while the Law enforcement entities will be free all the more so to deal with many other crimes considered more urgent and more important.....Those are some of the good points while there will be a number of benefits to legalization and the decriminalization of people using the drugs....The good points.....but meantime, because the drugs are highly addictive, even if they are legalized you can be assured ( I will wager good Money ) there will be plenty and or plenty more people eventually addicted to all the more legal status addictive drug substances including the already existing social problems and ramifications of legal alcohol consumption and the many people who are alcoholics..for example .........More legal addiction on top of legal addiction would be the end result........ The various aspects and ramifications of addiction still have to be addressed while illegal black market suppliers of said addictive recreational use drugs do not simply cease to exist after those said illegal addictive drugs become legalized....as that is a fallacy..........If the drugs were to be legalized then all the more reason for the Government law enforcement entities and regulatory agencies to seriously crack down and eliminate the illegal suppliers and harshly deal with any *non conforming* regulatory breeches of the legal supply regulations relative to the legal suppliers .....If not, you would then have a double edged sword to deal with on 2 fronts...the legal market and the illegal black market that will not disappear ....No matter Legal or Illegal, there will still be a whole lot of Laws and Regulations and Ordinances that will exist and needing to exist and more legalities to consider and eventually evolving in need of being enforced and therefore the criminalization of both users and suppliers will still exist while the social stigma of hopeless drug addiction will still exist........Either way, as long as a percent of the population insists on trying the drugs and experimenting with those known to be highly addictive drugs while continuing to try the drugs over and over again for fun and thrills and practiced hedonistic behavior...... until addiction takes hold.......... and then, the rest of the citizens have to tolerate and or accommodate the hopeless and more or less helpless drug addicts and all that is entailed with people hopelessly addicted to legal Heroin or legal Crack or legal Methamphetamine's....This is not Marijuana and not comparable at all...not at all...... and ignorant to think so and argue as so while citing Marijuana as a good example of successful legal recreational purpose drug consumption policies and advocate that the highly addictive and often deadly recreational street drugs should be thought of as being the same or similar as Marijuana and relative to how those other drugs should be addressed, in that respect........ Those many nasty aspects and resultant social ramifications of drug addiction and the drug related idiosyncrasies of *Legal Heroin Addicts*, in large numbers, are not that much different than Illegal Heroin addicts and or the many other types of addictive recreational drugs and the consequences and social ramifications caused by the widespread drug addiction that is inevitable due to the highly addictive nature of those recreational use drugs......All the existing hopelessly addicted alcoholics are a good example of legal addiction while being legal does not stop the associated consequences and or associated social ramifications caused by millions of legal alcoholics and all the problems and trouble they create for many other people.....The big difference to be noted and acknowledged is just how quickly people are soon hopelessly addicted to those other recreational use drugs while it does not matter if they are legally obtained or illegally obtained.......... The suppliers want their customer users to become addicted, in that respect, and hooked and in need of more, always in need of more and can not quit the use of the drugs because they are *That Addictive* and extremely difficult for anyone to stop using them........ Either way, the people who supply the socially damaging and problematic recreational use drug products and those that consume them should be held responsible and or accountable for the resultant problems they cause and create for other people....but, the trend seems to be to avoid conflict and be tolerant of the drug suppliers and the many drug addicts and accept their slovenly ways and unhealthy conduct with no blame while in effect encouraging the use of the recreational drugs as just another part of *living life large* and the widespread "party hardy" and "party on" attitudes and related lifestyle choices and all the free wheeling alcohol and drug consumption practices and allowed to do as they please while merrily immersed in the prevalent drug fueled, drug consumption, drug culture social environment......... It seems, all the other people live in fear of upsetting and or challenging the users and especially the often murderous suppliers while in the end allowing them to have it their way and to their satisfaction regardless of how much social mayhem is caused and numerous social problems developing that the users and suppliers cause and create and sustain while negatively effecting other people......All the while the suppliers and users conveniently blame the resultant drug use and drug addiction related problems on other people and the Government, of course, or other factors and always absolving themselves of any wrong doing.....of course.... and no surprise....as is the developed mindset and attitudes of drug addicts and drug suppliers.....There is less and less opposition as the years go by while the citizens have grown seemingly indifferent and apathetic and always expecting the Government to address these social problems.................So who are you going to listen to and or be persuaded by...??? Drug Addicts??? and or Drug Cartels???..... or legal Pharmaceutical companies that want to pump the market full of *their brand* of Legal, but still highly addictive recreational use drugs while feigning innocence and claiming: "No one forces them to take our highly addictive *legal* products" .......all the while smiling with Mega bucks dollar signs in their eyes while conveniently washing their dirty hands of any accountability and or responsibility for all the millions of drug addicts they have enabled and glad to have them addicted to *their* highly addictive, high profit, legal recreational drug products.....

breaks your heart

The dingy divers are given more help than the locals what a way to run a country

On the SNP watch this dreadful

Scumdee has been SNP for years. Also, it was one of only four local government areas which voted for independence in 2014. That's what supporting the SNP does for a city. Glasgow will soon go the same way.

Dealers are not the problem. Politicians perpetuating a never ending war on addicts are the problem. Email your MP

"mummy's dead" imagine saying that to a child

portugal had epidemic numbers in the 80s the deaths are what ended heroin not laws

I wonder what SNP are doing to mitigate this?

Interview the hidden people not just the worst as it's bringing prejudice and generalisations.

Judged daily but life has totally messed me up I take ksalols the 1mg ones and they help instantly

Crown crime undercurrent.

This guy featured had his gf lay on the morgue for months begging for money for her funeral. Which he had and spent several times. Apparently

Here in Scotland is depressing horrible weather no jobs corrupt government just to name a few.

what are the causes Ciaran ? aside of the obvious emotive journalistic credits ?

That's an example of being powerless over your addiction , methadone don't work ,we more abstinent based recovery programs to help sort out this , it's a pandemic on its the addiction issues the whole of the UK suffer from , am an addict in recovery I've been exactly where that two were , but am now clean threw the help of Narcotics anonymous am gonna be abstinent off my methadone in a few days . I find it really sad the situation of addiction that our communities across the country are facing , we need to stand up for change at government level before anything will change , I were on methadone for 19 yrs and there were no incentive too come off it from my cpns bk home in Scotland ,it were only till I moved to England and found NA and saw that recovery was possible ,I never even knew about Narcotics anonymous in Scotland cause I were never encouraged to go by my addiction treatment places ,which were ran by the NHS go figures 🤷🏻, my brother is part of that statistic as he died from an overdose from drugs prescribed by his doctor aswell as using street drugs , something needs done about it

My heart goes out to family's I had to bring my grandson absolutely despicable how Ower own are on the st and all the people that are coming into the country are getting put in 4 star 🌟 hotel's same thing in the hole off Renfrewshire Scotland. 😡

This is so sad - I feel for the Mothers and children, female addicts are way more vulnerable than men, the stigma is half the problem

This women sheryl has passed away now she overdosed, shame Dundee is rife with drugs

They are adults and choose to take drugs. Find better ways of feeling better and grow up

Plan to move to Dundee so Dundee is a rough place for drugs and crime?

The victims are how the rest are silenced, now hundreds of cycles on.

Cheryl I miss u hun leanne

Asking the crown for a crown crime?

We must do something or at lest try

You SERIOUSLY need subtitles.

Who's Ken?