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Valium epidemic in Scotland


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Stumbled across this vid today. Very interesting on the Valium abuse within Scotland.

 

Maybe someone else has posted it already. Just thought I would share.

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Thanks for posting Navita, yeah, I've seen this. Being Scottish myself I've seen in the media how Valium abuse is on the rise in Scotland. Very disturbing. As sympathetic as I am to people who've come to this sad state the Scottish government doesn't really acknowledge the problems of the unsuspecting patient prescribed a benzodiazepine by their accommodating GP, we tend to get lumped together. They don't think there is a problem. Addiction services aren't geared up for the likes of people like me or my elderly mother who couldn't get off Ativan. I wasn't involved in any drug seeking behaviour and this is what these agencies are all about. Currently what funding there is goes to helping people coming off heroin and other illegal street drugs. So no help for prescription drug victims of benzos or antidepressants which I think are the next problem down the line. I struggled to get off both.

 

It gets me down that somehow we seem to be ignored by both doctors and government. It's got to change and occasionally the media reflects this but it's definitely hard going getting the message out. 

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Hey, I just realized that your name is Ativan backwards, Navita.

(Sorry, off topic from your post)

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Yes, pris is right.  I am Scottish too.  No help for those of us who took benzos as prescribed.  Funding goes to drug addiction.

 

However, we are trying hard to do something to change this and have recently submitted a petition to the Scottish Parliament.

I have recently been on Scottish TV.  We are fighting our corner as best we can.

 

https://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolved/Petitions/PE01651

 

Still looking for signatures from any country.

 

Fiona  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

 

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Yep, I saw this one a couple months ago. I am not a native English speaker, and I needed subtitles to understand the Scottish accent. What part of Scotland are you ladies from.

This documentary movie focused on young guys from Dundee in Scotland. Is there really many young people unemployed there? No purpose in life?

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Yep, I saw this one a couple months ago. I am not a native English speaker, and I needed subtitles to understand the Scottish accent. What part of Scotland are you ladies from.

This documentary movie focused on young guys from Dundee in Scotland. Is there really many young people unemployed there? No purpose in life?

 

Hi Rick,

 

I don't think Fiona will mind if I tell you that we both come from the Aberdeen area. Unemployment levels amongst young people in Dundee are quite high but I think Glasgow would have a greater problem and while there are deprived areas in Dundee it is also has a thriving technology sector. The console game "Grand Theft Auto" was developed there. Dundee was once known as the city of jute, jam and journalism. Perhaps you have heard of "Oor Wullie" or maybe "The Broons". They are some of Scotland's most famous comic-strip characters.

 

Och aye the noo fae Bonnie Scotland!   

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:D :D :D :D :D :D

 

You probably would not understand me either if I spoke in the local dialect, Doric but I try my best to speak English!! 

 

Fiona  :thumbsup:

 

 

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:D :D :D :D :D :D

 

You probably would not understand me either if I spoke in the local dialect, Doric but I try my best to speak English!! 

 

Fiona  :thumbsup:

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As I am a Canadian citizen and not a native English speaker, I do understand when people speak in North American accent or "clear" English accent from England.

When a guy from India speaks I have to figure out some words (I was once on the phone with a guy from the Dell Customer Calling Centre in India).

I watch a lot of videos on YouTube and when a guy from Glasgow, Scotland speaks I have no problem to understand every word he says.

And, Fiona, I have never heard of Doric dialect :).

 

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That's so funny that your avatar is just like your ticker!!!!

 

Have you seen my blog?  A whole invasion of critters!!  :D :D :D

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Yep, I saw this one a couple months ago. I am not a native English speaker, and I needed subtitles to understand the Scottish accent. What part of Scotland are you ladies from.

This documentary movie focused on young guys from Dundee in Scotland. Is there really many young people unemployed there? No purpose in life?

 

Hi Rick,

 

I don't think Fiona will mind if I tell you that we both come from the Aberdeen area. Unemployment levels amongst young people in Dundee are quite high but I think Glasgow would have a greater problem and while there are deprived areas in Dundee it is also has a thriving technology sector. The console game "Grand Theft Auto" was developed there. Dundee was once known as the city of jute, jam and journalism. Perhaps you have heard of "Oor Wullie" or maybe "The Broons". They are some of Scotland's most famous comic-strip characters.

 

Och aye the noo fae Bonnie Scotland! 

 

So if unemployment is high in the Dundee are these young guys have no purpose in life and that is the source of their misery. Valium is cheaper than other drugs.

So you are ladies from the east coast of Scotland, I guess, no Gaelic spoken there?

In Glasgow there are lot of people from Eastern and Central Europe working (Polish, Lithuanian, Romanians). What do you think?

And I do not understand your last sentence :).

Rick

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:D :D :D :D :D :D

 

You probably would not understand me either if I spoke in the local dialect, Doric but I try my best to speak English!! 

 

Fiona  :thumbsup:

[/wquote]

 

As I am a Canadian citizen and not a native English speaker, I do understand when people speak in North American accent or "clear" English accent from England.

When a guy from India speaks I have to figure out some words (I was once on the phone with a guy from the Dell Customer Calling Centre in India).

I watch a lot of videos on YouTube and when a guy from Glasgow, Scotland speaks I have no problem to understand every word he says.

And, Fiona, I have never heard of Doric dialect :).

 

Doric is spoken in the north-east of Scotland. 

 

Here is a short lesson in Glaswegian. 

 

This American is quite funny imitating the Scots and Irish accents. 

 

:D :D :D :D

 

 

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Yep, I saw this one a couple months ago. I am not a native English speaker, and I needed subtitles to understand the Scottish accent. What part of Scotland are you ladies from.

This documentary movie focused on young guys from Dundee in Scotland. Is there really many young people unemployed there? No purpose in life?

 

Hi Rick,

 

I don't think Fiona will mind if I tell you that we both come from the Aberdeen area. Unemployment levels amongst young people in Dundee are quite high but I think Glasgow would have a greater problem and while there are deprived areas in Dundee it is also has a thriving technology sector. The console game "Grand Theft Auto" was developed there. Dundee was once known as the city of jute, jam and journalism. Perhaps you have heard of "Oor Wullie" or maybe "The Broons". They are some of Scotland's most famous comic-strip characters.

 

Och aye the noo fae Bonnie Scotland! 

 

So if unemployment is high in the Dundee are these young guys have no purpose in life and that is the source of their misery. Valium is cheaper than other drugs.

So you are ladies from the east coast of Scotland, I guess, no Gaelic spoken there?

In Glasgow there are lot of people from Eastern and Central Europe working (Polish, Lithuanian, Romanians). What do you think?

And I do not understand your last sentence :).

Rick

 

No Gaelic spoken in the east of Scotland, it is spoken in the Highlands and Islands but very much a minority language now despite great attempts to keep it alive.

 

There are many Eastern Europeans here in Aberdeen where I live.  We need immigrant workers in Scotland, we have an ageing population and a shortage of working age people here.

 

Och aye the noo = Oh yes, just now.

 

fae Bonnie Scotland = from Beautiful Scotland.

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That's so funny that your avatar is just like your ticker!!!!

 

Have you seen my blog?  A whole invasion of critters!!  :D :D :D

 

I normally don't look at blogs, but I'll look at yours as I like critters myself. :smitten:

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I used to have a good friend back in the late 70's who's father was Scottish.

 

One day I was over at his place and his father came home from work and was asking why he changed something on the car they had at the time. His father's words where something like "fit for'd ja do at John?" Needless to say, I had to ask my buddy what his dad just said...........it was, "what did you do that for"  :laugh:

 

I do believe the parents spoke Gaelic.

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I used to have a good friend back in the late 70's who's father was Scottish.

 

One day I was over at his place and his father came home from work and was asking why he changed something on the car they had at the time. His father's words where something like "fit for'd ja do at John?" Needless to say, I had to ask my buddy what his dad just said...........it was, "what did you do that for"  :laugh:

 

I do believe the parents spoke Gaelic.

 

:laugh: :laugh:

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For anyone interested to hear the Doric being spoken try this link.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzS3AdzZ0Nw

 

Spoken directly from the heart of Royal Deeside, location of her majesty the Queen's deluxe pad Balmoral.

I hope you all get the drift.

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We have had kings and queens going waaaaaaaaay back, to the year oatcakes (a very long time ago) and beyond. According to the history books Kenneth MacAlpin was the first king of Scotland in 843. In the Union of the Crowns in 1603 James VI (son of Mary Queen of Scots) became king of both Scotland and England. It's been ongoing for a wee while now!

 

Aren't some of your states named after queens like Virginia and Maryland? Poor old King George III certainly thought he had a claim to rule in north America. If he had won the American War of Independence you too might have shared our present day queen!  :D :D :laugh:

 

 

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We have had kings and queens going waaaaaaaaay back, to the year oatcakes (a very long time ago) and beyond. According to the history books Kenneth MacAlpin was the first king of Scotland in 843. In the Union of the Crowns in 1603 James VI (son of Mary Queen of Scots) became king of both Scotland and England. It's been ongoing for a wee while now!

 

Aren't some of your states named after queens like Virginia and Maryland? Poor old King George III certainly thought he had a claim to rule in north America. If he had won the American War of Independence you too might have shared our present day queen!  :D :D :laugh:

 

Sorry we have to pay our own taxes and not England's. We prefer it that way. :laugh: That's why we kicked their butt back home and told them to play well with others. :laugh: I mean what does royalty do but spend tax payer's money? ::)

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