I can't remember seeing heroin/coke addled folks walking about when I was younger
I maybe didn't pay as much attention as I do now. Back in the days before even I was born I think I remember reading that drug addiction was prevalent in the middle and upper classes
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:20, archived)

Note the fact that I say *I think*
I have no research or facts to back this up
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:22, archived)

Yeah, it's cool :) I'd be very surprised if things really were getting worse though.
Though I'm from The North (like you), where perhaps we don't have so much of a problem as they do in London...my London-based housemates were very amused that I was so shocked that they'd all been mugged multiple times.
( Malchick, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:30, archived)

THE NORTH ROCKS!

( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:31, archived)