A Shift In Treatment? - SUIT - Wolverhampton Service User

approaches such as group work,
one to one counselling and
complimentary therapies, all
available at the YMCA Bridge.
How do service users make it
difficult to do your job?
The opposite of the last question I
answered really. When people
don't want to be in treatment or
are just not ready to engage well,
but there is always opportunity to
say or suggest something that
may help
SUIT Interview Karen Collier
From Addiction Services
What is your job role within
Horizon House?
I am the health promotion nurse
at Horizon house, which involves
physical health checks and
advice as well as offering
vaccinations and screening for
blood borne viruses. I am also
keyworker to a small number of
service users and help in the
needle exchange.
Wolverhampton Drug Service Users Lifestyle Magazine
Super Smack!
What do you enjoy about your
job?
I enjoy meeting interesting
people, and I love seeing people
make steps to turn their lives
around and start to get well.
What would you change about
the service?
Sometimes I think in an ideal world
there would be many ways to
improve the service, i.e. More
funds, opportunities for residential
detox and rehab, but there are
How do service users make it easy
no easy answers. The service just
to do your job?
needs to be as accessible, flexible
Service users make it easier for us
and service user focused as
to do our job when they want to
possible.
be in treatment and make it a
priority in their life. This includes What do you do to relax after a
attending appointments, being hard day at work?
on time and picking up Spending time with my family,
medication as prescribed as well gardening and the occasional
as being open to other
gig.
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Issue 19 Sept– Oct 2010
A Shift In Treatment?
The Love Of My Life – A True Story
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real life stories, puzzles and a feature on the future of drug treatment
services, something that is important to both drugs workers and
service users.
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The latest news
Pg 4-5
SUIT Football
Pg 6
Ivory Wave??
Pg 7
Shift in the treatment of drug addicts!
Pg 8-9
Needle lottery scheme
Pg 10
NTA– Abstinence is the way
Pg11
Women's focus group
Pg 12
Bet this will get you talking
Pg 13
Sudoku
Pg 14
A Page for you
Pg 15-16
Recipe page
Pg 17
The love of my life
Pg 18-19
Coalway house– Residential rehab
Pg 20
Your Questions
Pg 21
Super smack
Pg 22-23
Local NA meetings
Pg 24
Needle exchange pharmacies
Pg 25
Local service Directory
Pg 26-27
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A List of Pharmacies In Wolverhampton who
Offer Needle Exchange
News - News - News – News - News - News - News - News
Crack hidden in Kinder Eggs!
All equipment is provided for free
Drug dealers in Birmingham have been using plastic eggs normally
found inside children‟s chocolate favourite Kinder Surprise to hide lethal
crack cocaine.
Detectives found the drug hidden in Kinder Surprise egg containers after
a raid in Woodstock Road, Handsworth which netted thousands of
pounds of cash and drugs.
Police targeted the house following growing concerns from local
people.
Officers found individual rocks of crack hidden in yellow plastic
capsules, which are normally used to store the surprise toys in Kinder
Surprise eggs. Police officers believe dealers are using the innocent
looking plastic capsules to keep drugs safe, dry and also disguise what
they are doing on the streets.
The raid also uncovered smaller deals of crack hidden inside a
multi-vitamin pills container.
Three men, aged 25, 38 and 37, who are all from the Handsworth area,
were arrested on suspicion of possession and intent to supply class A
drugs after officers found crack cocaine prepared for sale at the house.
Small amounts of cannabis were also recovered along with mobile
phones believed to be connected to drug dealing.
As well as £5,000 worth of cannabis and crack, around £15,000 cash
was also seized which police will apply to be used to fund community
initiatives under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
The raid is the start of a two-week zero tolerance operation.
Ferrero, which makes Kinder Surprise, said that as it was an ongoing
police matter they did not wish to comment.
Source: Express & Star.
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Look out
for this sign
on the shop
front to find
out if they
provide the
service
A Brickley Ltd, 88 Griffiths Drive, WV11 2JW
All Saints Pharmacy, 91-93 All Saints Road, WV2 1DR
Alpharm Ltd, 468 Stafford Road, WV10 6AP
Anderson Chemist, 311 Dudley Road, WV2 3JE
Boots Pharmacy, 40-41 Dudley Street, WV1 3ER
Boots Pharmacy, 100 Church Street, Bilston, WV14 0BJ
Brooklands Pharmacy, 48 Brooklands Parade, WV1 2NE
Brutons Pharmacy, 1 Mervyn Place, Bilston, WV14 8DD
Co-op Pharmacy, Avion Centre, 6 Bargate Drive, WV6 0QW
Co-op Pharmacy, 425 Dudley Road, WV2 3AH
Co-op Pharmacy, 8 Showell Circus, WV10 9BA
Co-op, Pendeford Health Centre, Whitburn Close, WV9 5NJ
Essington Pharmacy, 129 Long Knowle Lane, WV11 1JG
HN Pharmacy, 124 Cannock Road, WV10 8PW
Lloyds Pharmacy, 323/325 Penn Road, WV4 5QF
Lloyds Pharmacy, 34/35 Thornley Street, WV1 1JP
Lloyds Pharmacy, 18-20 The Broadway, WV10 8EB
Lloyds Pharmacy, 45 Church Street, WV14 0AX
Lloyds Pharmacy, Lower Street, WV6 9NS
Lloyds Pharmacy, 181 Wednesfield Road, WV10 0EN
Lloyds Pharmacy, 18 High Street, Wednesfield, WV11 1SZ
Meerapharm, 331 Bushbury Lane, WV10 9UJ
Murrays Healthcare, 128 Childs Avenue, Coseley, WV14 9XB
Phoenix Pharmacy, Phoenix Health Centre, Parkfield Road, WV4 6ED
Staveley Chemist, 212 Staveley Road, WV1 4RH
Supercare Pharmacy, 135 Dudley Road, WV2 3HD
Superdrug Pharmacy, 65/67 Mander Square, WV1 3NN
Tettenhall Wood Pharmacy, 12 School Road, WV6 8EN
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News - News - News – News - News - News - News - News
ChildLine calls prompted by parents' drink and drugs
A total of 150,000 calls were received by ChildLine in the 2009-10 year
More than 100 children a week are contacting the ChildLine helpline with
worries about their parents' drinking or drug use, according to the NSPCC.
It said in the year to March, 5,700 children had called, but founder Esther
Rantzen told the BBC there were likely to be many more too afraid to do so.
W o l v e r h a m p t o n
►Monday
7:30 pm
Methodist Church, Darlington Street
►Friday
7:30 pm
Methodist Church, Darlington Street
W e s t
►Wednesday
7:30 pm
B r o m w i c h
‘One desire-freedom’, Chapter House
Phoenix St
(upstairs in lounge ring bell for access).
W a l s a l l
7:30 pm
►Thursday
‘The war is over’, St Matthew centre,
St Matthew close, Churchill. (Ring bell for
access).
S t o u r b r i d g e
►Monday
8:00 pm
54, Claycroft Place, Lye DY9 8BZ
►Tuesday
8:00 pm
Gibbs House, Gibbs Rd, off Bald Lane, Lye.
►Wednesday
6:30 pm
‘The truth in Lye’, The Warehouse,
Atlantic House,
Dudley Rd. (Building behind the Bronx).
- Open on request.
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Two-thirds of those callers had mentioned their parents' drinking.
The children calling about that issue were also more likely than other child
callers to report abuse, it added.
Ms Rantzen said: "These are the children that know our number and ring us,
but what about the many, many thousands of children who aren't, all as,
familiar with ChildLine's work and who might be fearful of ringing us?"
She added: "I am, in a sense, imploring those people who work with children
to be alert to the possibility that the silent, friendless child... may have
trouble at home created by alcohol and drug problems."
Mephedrone no Killer, but next
legal high could be!
While mephedrone was blamed for
many young deaths prior to its ban
in April 2010, there was no
conclusive evidence to prove causality in every single case, said Harris. The 'media frenzy' whipped up
around the then legal high meant
the ban was pushed through - and
Harris said this is where the biggest
mistake lay. With new legal highs
coming to light all the time, he said
corrupted, complex and unknown
drugs are replacing mephedrone
and will potentially cause more
danger in comparison. Source : DDN News
Benefit Withdrawal Considered
People dependent on drugs and
alcohol who refuse treatment could
h a ve th e i r w e l f ar e b e n efi ts
withdrawn under plans being
considered by the Home Office.
The idea is in a consultation paper
on the government's drug strategy
for England, Wales and Scotland.
The proposals also suggest that addicts on benefits should not be
required to seek work while receiving
treatment.
Source: BBC News
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The niceness inside you a thing of the past, the self centred
creature is moving fast.
It tells you to burgle, rob houses and shops, carelessly leaving your
prints for the cops,
Car on the drive as you‟re trashing a dwelling, grabbing the stereo
and the telly, anything worth
Selling, alls on your mind is there‟s money to earn, not checking to
see if the owners return,
A face at the window, a look of surprise, “neighbourhood watch”
lighting up in their eyes
Your only hope is the door that‟s ajar, race down the drive and
jump in the car,
Soon its time to pick up the pieces; regain the respect by ironing
the creases,
Paying back all the loans you had, you must be mad to get so
sad.
You took the money from the poor and needy, when want was a
need and need was greedy.
Payback comes to one and all, brown makes the strongest
people fall, you did the crimes, you did
Commit, so you could get a little bit of golden brown, evil shit,
together in a hit.
Too late as now the damage is done, no longer is tooting much
fun,
Pointing at your head a gun, admit smack has fucking won.
But just in time you‟re up in court, the biggest battle yet to be
fought,
A ray of hope soon shines your way, praying for that distant day
when aches and pains will go away.
Emotions come back, tears return, mistakes are made so you can
learn,
A different life with a different name, turn back the clocks you‟d
do the same,
But now times past its all behind forget the shit of every kind,
Why should we remember sorrow? Keep on dreaming of
tomorrow!
By Anonymous
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Super Smack
A bad boys doing time for doing crime that once did pay,
To support his way of feeling drunk, by taking junk,
That fucks you up and brings you down, no longer to be seen
around town,
Avoiding pubs, clubs and faces, sitting down in run down places,
Chasing dragons, inhaling brown, feeling good, when acting the
clown,
Losing friends and owing money, anything to get that honey.
Making loads by selling smack, now in too deep and can‟t turn
back,
Scoring more to feel your high, your heads way up in the sky.
Slowly starting to question why? You‟ve got no tears left to cry.
You feel no pain, your heads a shed, thinking you‟d be better off
dead,
Go on you‟ve made your bed, the bills keep coming, the sum gets
big
And all because you need that dig, debts keep growing while foil
is used,
Brown is known for being abused.
Congratulations! Feeling proud? Well go on shout out loud as if the
world is unaware,
About the dirty works you share, out your arm then in another,
There‟s nothing wrong he‟s like a brother!
One of the many tempted fates, but what‟s a needle shared with
mates?
Don‟t need to think about the worst, why should you when the
buzz comes first!
Opinions of you stoop as low as the floor and your only concern is
that you want more.
Hands in your pockets results as before, not caring your habit has
made you this poor.
Cheeks sunken in, aged ten years, in ten days, when will you
realise the error of your ways?
Sex is a turn off, no longer a must; scoring a deal is your number
one lust.
Can‟t you see that your downfall is making you mean? When
waking to heroin becomes a routine
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Ivory Wave?? By SUIT
I had never heard of this „legal high‟
until it was recently mentioned in the
news- “Body found floating in sea off
Isle of Wight”. But what does that have
to do with legal highs? It was only later I
heard the rest of this news story when it
became clear that they were blaming
a „new‟ legal high for this mans death, it
is alarming when there are soo many
news stories week after week about
young people taking legal highs and dying. Although in
the recent „Mephadrone‟ cases this was found not to be
the cause of death for the young people taking it. Will this
also be the case with the new „Ivory Wave‟ legal high?
The government may have illegalised Mephadrone but
surely they don't think that they can keep up to date with
this. Every time one legal high is made illegal there will be
another one in waiting. So what exactly can be done?
Personally I think that it is the internet that needs to be
monitored more closely. It took me literally two minutes to
find a number of web-sites where I could order legal highs
to be delivered to my door. It is no wonder that they are
so appealing to young people, they are cheap and
readily available.
Will this legal high craze that we seem to be having at the
minute alter what we see now as drug treatment? Do
these legal highs have long term, damaging effects? Do
they cause withdrawal? There are so many things we
don't know about them, there are so many questions but
little in the way of answers!
What's your opinion???? Let us know.
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Shift in treatment of drug
addicts! By SUIT
Your questions answered
David Cameron plans to press ahead
with an expensive shift in treatment for
drug addicts, towards residential
programmes and away from the use of
methadone as a substitute licensed drug.
The prime minister has ordered a revised
drugs policy to be in place by the end of
the year, by which time the Department
of Health and Home Office will have
been told their budgets.
Got a Question?
Q. Can I get screened for
hepatitis in Wolverhampton?
Need Answers?
(Anonymous)
A. Anyone who is in treatment
Don’t know where to
can get screened for hepatitis
turn?
B and C, Vaccinations are
available for hepatitis A and B,
Send your questions to SUIT and we
this compromises of a three will get the answers you deserve.
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Simply post your question to -:
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information please feel free to
drop in at Horizon House.
Wolverhampton
Karen Collier
WV2 4BR
Health Promotion Nurse
He is also planning to make the voluntary sector a lead body in
delivery of the programme, so reducing, or possibly ending, the
role of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse.
Speaking during a PM Direct debate this week, Cameron said:
"The last government became too target obsessed. It was all
about how many addicts are in touch with treatment agencies,
and this, in too many cases, really meant the addict was talking
to someone and maybe getting some methadone, which is a
government authorised form of opium, rather than heroin. It did
not really address the problem – that [the addict] had a drug
habit.
"I would like to … try to provide – difficult though it will be given
the shortage of money we have been left – more residential
treatment programmes. In the end, the way you get drug addicts
clean is by getting them off drugs altogether, challenging their
addiction rather than just replacing one opiate with another."
It is the first time Cameron has spoken about drugs policy since he
became prime minister, and reflects his strong view that
methadone is just a state-sponsored form of addiction. Cameron
has been looking at greater use of "payment by results" so that
the voluntary sector is paid according to how long drug addicts
are kept away from their substances.
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Q. How can I become a volunteer at SUIT?
(Anonymous)
A. To become a volunteer at SUIT you have to either be in drug
treatment or have been within the last six months. Once this
has been established we will ask you to come to an informal
interview so you can get to know a bit more about what we
do, once you are happy and we feel you can fit in with our
team, we will start you on a four week induction programme,
after which you will be a fully fledged member of SUIT.
If you would like more information on becoming a volunteer
please contact us on : 01902 328983 or visit www.suiteam.com.
SUIT Project Worker
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A government source said: "This is something he feels very strongly
about and it is going to be a priority across government. Labour just
tried to sweep the problem under the carpet using methadone."
While in opposition shadow ministers, and the Centre for Social
Justice (CSJ), then chaired by Iain Duncan Smith, now work and
pensions secretary, battled to extract information from the
government on how many people were receiving methadone
treatment, in prison and elsewhere.
Central and local government spend about £1.2bn a year tackling
drug misuse in England. There are an estimated third of a million
problem drug users in England. More than 200,000 are in contact
with treatment agencies, but most are "maintained" on methadone
or other synthetic opiates, at a cost of £300m a year, rather than
pushed towards abstaining from drugs, whether prescribed or
illegal.
Cameron's criticism closely follows analysis presented by the CSJ in
a report last month calling for the National Treatment Agency to be
scrapped and replaced by an "addiction recovery board" covering
drugs and alcohol misuse
The CSJ claimed: "Since its inception the NTA has focused on simply
moving addicts into treatment and processing them through a 12week course of, usually, maintenance prescription … there is no
strategy or incentive to reduce the numbers on maintenance
treatment and move people into recovery."
The NTA disputed this analysis, and revised its thinking to ensure that
no one stayed indefinitely on methadone.
The body said on its website that it had launched "an ambitious
new blueprint to move people as quickly and safely as possible
through treatment to recovery and re-integration in their local
community". But from April 2012 the NTA, already suffering spending
cuts, will cease to be a separate organisation and its functions will
be transferred into the proposed Public Health Service.
More on page 11!
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The Love of My Life
came to a head I got barred from two of the clubs that I made
most of my money from and got conned out of a large amount of
money!
It got to the point when I didn‟t know what to do and killing myself
seemed like the only thing I could do. I had no money, no food (not
that I ate much anyway), no drugs and no electricity, with the last
bit of change I had I went to the phone box and called home but
my big brother picked up and told me to fuck off before I could
talk (I don‟t think he would have done that if he knew how I was
feeling). With my last bit of hope gone I went home and took an
overdose. I took paracetomol, annadin, nytol sleeping tablets and
even antibiotics, I washed them all down with martini. This wasn‟t
just a cry for help I wanted to die, the next few hours were the scariest time of my life. I started tripping I could see shadows on the
walls in my flat, I felt things moving all around me. I started to find it
hard to walk and couldn‟t see properly I had a message on my
phone but could not read it. I just lay down on the sofa waiting to
die, it felt like I was on the top of a rollercoaster waiting to fall but I
didn‟t. I kept thinking this is it, I was ready to go but I just fell to sleep.
I woke up the next day at about 5:30pm and have never been so
upset to be alive. I was in a lot of pain and my back was hurting, I
went to the toilet and could smell the paracetomol that smell
makes me sick to this day.
I still think it‟s a miracle that I didn‟t die that night, my body must
have been that used to having chemicals pumped into. Soon after
I went to the Y.M.C.A Bridge, Horizon House and Corner House for
help. It would be nice to say that I lived happily ever after but I was
only 3 years into my love affair with drugs.
I still have seven years to fill you in on so keep a look out!!
By Darren Smith.
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The Love of My Life
I am 26 years old and have never had a long term relationship,
apart from the one I‟ve had with drugs. A ten year love affair that
had a lot of ups, and just as many come downs. I first met the love
of my life on the 5th October 2001, it was one minute past midnight
in an old red phone box at a night club. That one pill changed my
life forever, my love affair started well, I was having fun, dancing
and meeting new friends. I soon became a regular face on the
club scene and even started selling love pills to other clubbers. In
such a short space of time id gone from being someone who
found it hard to fit in to someone other people could have fun
with and I loved it. But like all relationships the bad times catch up
fast, I was taking a lot of drugs up to 10-15 pills a night. I didn‟t
have just the one lover I had three: ketamine, ecstasy and my wife
cocaine, I even had a bit on the side with speed sometimes. Most
of the time it was a threesome with my three lovers all crushed up
together and snorted as one. I was making a lot of money and
had many fake people in my life who were more than willing to
help me spend it, no one ever told me to stop or slow down.
I started to look very ill and thin, I only weighed 9 stone and hardly
slept or ate. I looked a mess but couldn‟t see it myself because I
was taking drugs 24 hours a day 7 days a week. My weekend
would last for 6 days at a time and apart from short naps I spent
most of my time awake. The longest time I stayed awake for was 5
days straight and took a whole box of Nytol to end that specific
weekend. My weekends would start on a Thursday and end on a
Tuesday. My life went on like this until I was about 19, by this time I
was mixed up with gangsters who I was in debt to (rule number 1
don‟t get high on your own supply). I was now taking up to 60 pills
a week and endless amounts of coke and ket, I didn‟t know how
to cope with my life and most days I would cry over nothing.
I started to have fits in my sleep which made things even worse,
I would have extremely bad nightmares and got sleep paralysis.
My non-stop party life was collapsing from the inside out. My body,
mind and sole were ready to give up and call it a day. I didn‟t
want my life anymore and started thinking about killing myself
thinking that was the answer, no more dates, no more gangsters,
no more drugs and no more heart break. One week everything
NTA– Abstinence is the way
New business plan champions drug-free life beyond treatment
The National Treatment Agency (NTA) has announced that it will
champion abstinence-focused treatment in its newly published
business plan.
Calling its declared intention to move people as quickly as
possible through treatment to recovery and reintegration into the
community an „ambitious new blueprint‟, the NTA has involved
two well-known addiction experts, Prof John Strand of the National
Addiction Centre and Dr David Best of the University of the West of
Scotland.
Prof Strang will chair an expert group developing new clinical
protocols for substitute prescribing, which he said would guide
clinicians and agencies in helping people „to achieve their full
personal recovery‟, and which could still include prescribing
substitute medications where needed.
„I am pleased to be involved with creating a more dynamic
treatment system so that those with addiction problems can be
helped in the best ways possible for their individual circumstances
and personal aspirations,‟ he said.
Dr Best‟s work will look at ways of segmenting the treatment
population so that commissioners and providers could direct users
towards tailor made programme that would, he said, „encourage
them to take ownership of their own future to achieve
independence and recovery from addiction.‟
„That will enable us to match treatment and supporting services
much more closely to the users who will benefit from them,‟ he
added.
Another key theme of the NTA‟s business plan in the run-up 2012,
when its functions will be transferred into the new Public Health
Service, would be „providing better value for money from central
investment‟.
Until then, „the NTA intends to get on with our core business,‟ said
chief executive Paul Hayes. „Working with partners in drug
treatment, health, councils, police, prisons, probation and social
services, our focus will be on sustained recovery, demonstrable
outcomes and providing better services for less money.‟
Source: DDN News
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11
Country Vegetable Soup
Ingredients
Serves 6
1 kg (2 lb) mixed root vegetables- carrots,
celery, leeks, onions, parsnips, potatoes,
Swedes, turnips, etc.
75 g (3 oz) butter or margarine
2 cloves garlic, sliced
bay leaf
salt and pepper to taste
300 ml (1/2 pt) good chicken or vegetable stock
a little grated cheese to garnish (optional)
Method
1. Wash and prepare the vegetables, trimming and peeling where
necessary, and slice them.
2. Heat the butter or margarine in a large pan and add the vegetables,
garlic, bay leaf, and a little salt and pepper.
3. Stir well, then cover and cook slowly for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Add the stock, bring to the boil, then cover and simmer gently for 30
minutes or until the vegetables are tender.
5. Remove the bay leaf. Strain the soup, reserving the liquid.
6. Coarsely mash or blend half the vegetables. Add to the liquid.
7. Sieve or liquidize the remaining vegetables until they form a thick
puree.
8. Add to the soup, reheat and taste for seasoning.
9. Spoon into individual bowls and serve sprinkled with grated cheese, if
wished.
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This page has been left blank so you can send us
your stories, poems or anything else you would
like to see in the magazine, simply tear the
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page. (If you don‟t want your name with it, you don't have to)
Bet this will get you talking
Taking a break from the hectic schedule of the extremely busy
office the other day, the conversation got around to music and the
amount of references to drugs and in particular Heroin there are out
there. From the well known attributes such as Golden Brown
(Stranglers) a little research found some surprising results. Damon
Alburn has stated that “beetlebaum “(Blur) was written whilst he was
struggling with his own Heroin addiction, Red Hot Chilli Peppers have
a line “take me to the place I love where I used to burn” from “take
me to the bridge”. Velvet Underground (and many covers) have
“waiting for my man, twenty six dollars in my hand,... He‟s never
early, he‟s always late. First thing you learn is you always gotta wait”.
How about relating to John Lennon (the plastic ono band) “cold
turkey has got me on the run”
There is another Stranglers track called Don‟t Bring Harry (see lyrics)
and it is believed that the phrase “you can check out any time you
like, but you can never leave” from Eagles Hotel California refers to
the fact that we can always give up drugs but addiction is for life.
Long has been the theory that Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan, The
Byrds) is a euphemism for a drug dealer, decide for your selves,
“Take me for a trip upon your magic swirling ship, all my senses have
been shipped, I‟m ready to go anywhere I‟m ready for to fade, into
my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go
under it In the jingle jangle morning I‟ll come following you.”
Amy Whinehouse‟s ”rehab” by the way refers to alcoholic rehab
which she was advised to attend, this came before her much
publicized later problems with harder drugs.
Please send in your own particular favorites of these songs.
It is amazing to think that many of today‟s artists have struggled with
substance addiction. Perhaps we can gain encouragement from
the fact that in the main they have sorted their lives out and gone
on to have very successful careers.
Can we please have your own favorites/suggestions? Hopefully we
will find space in the next issue to feature these.
By a SUIT Volunteer.
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