The United Kingdom is currently fighting a war in which thousands of British people die needlessly each year. Deaths that the government, the media and the general population are guilty of turning a blind eye to.
This isn’t a small war either and it is one that takes place in the North East, in fact, it has been going on in the UK for over 40 years with the death toll climbing at an alarming rate.
The war is incredibly costly too. In a time of austerity where people are using food and clothes banks to survive, billions of pounds are spent every year targeting the weak, the afflicted, as well as the gangs, the dealers and the criminals. This war is with the shadow economy of the UK. This is the war on drugs. And it is a war we are losing.
Last week, a report released by the Office of National Statistics on drug deaths in England and Wales made for depressing reading. Drug deaths last year totalled over 3,000 people – nearly 200 from the North East - a 17% rise on the year before, with 67% of deaths attributed to illegal substances.
Drug deaths are now the highest they have been since records began and for the second year running the North East was named as the worst region in the country for drug poisoning deaths.
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