13-Nov-2003, 05:00 PM
anne - fair comment i can imagine that was a real scare. thankfully he was ok.
i just think stopping them drinking on the streets where they are visable wont neccesarily stop them drinking. it will just move them on.
in stockport a few years back they had a clampdown on glue sniffing and put all the local stockists under pressure not to sell glue to young people to did a similair street clearing campaign. deprived of their drug they started buying areosols instead. one young man ended up with his mate in a disused building by the canal. he used the gas - it froze his lungs he was struggling for breath and they were a good mile from all main roads. result one young man dead. a tragedy. and in my opinion an example of ill thought through public policy.
i just think stopping them drinking on the streets where they are visable wont neccesarily stop them drinking. it will just move them on.
in stockport a few years back they had a clampdown on glue sniffing and put all the local stockists under pressure not to sell glue to young people to did a similair street clearing campaign. deprived of their drug they started buying areosols instead. one young man ended up with his mate in a disused building by the canal. he used the gas - it froze his lungs he was struggling for breath and they were a good mile from all main roads. result one young man dead. a tragedy. and in my opinion an example of ill thought through public policy.
do as you would be done by