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Young and Addicted

particularly so across the southeast of england after a chilly night, and that cloud then coming in over the top. and that cloud continues to push its way southwards together with those weather fronts and with the high out towards the west, we're left with a northerly breeze again on tuesday. still a bit of patchy light rain or drizzle to clear in the south. otherwise, that northerly wind will bring a lot of cloud to eastern areas and maybe the odd shower near the coast. but out to the west, this is where we've got the best of the sunshine and those temperatures getting up to 13, maybe 1a degrees but particularly cold across the eastern side of the uk — 8—10 celsius here. now, when is it going to warm up? well, no time soon. it looks like through the rest of the week, we're still in this colder airand, ifanything, with the pressure tending to fall, there's a risk of a bit more rain as well.

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Young and Addicted

i lose my life. if i lose myself, i lose myself. and that's what makes me want to take more k, cos then i stop thinking about stuff like that, and that's the vicious circle. to escape from that vicious circle, james dear left the uk and moved to australia, and later new zealand, when he was addicted to ketamine. since getting clean, james has been sharing his story through his youtube channel and podcast break the chain. i shared my insights about my life and my regrets and what i felt guilty, i felt about what i'd done to my mum and put her through, and my family, and ijust got completely positive feedback from doing this. in that time, he's noticed an increase in ketamine in australasia. when i first went to australia, i went there because i didn't think i was going to be able to get ketamine, and that was fundamentally more or less true. when i first went to brisbane, for example, it was a smaller city. i think i came into contact with it twice.

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i speak to a few, who all say that demand is bigger than ever before. ketamine is currently a class b drug in the uk, which means the maximum penalty for dealing is 1a years in prison. i'd come and see and there would be barrels, like actual steel tank barrels full of ket. it was unbelievable how much ket you could see. an—ex dealer agrees to meet me with herfriend. she says it was during covid that she noticed a huge increase in demand. i never did this to get into like anything gang—related. i never did this to get on anyone�*s back. i never did it for an ego boost. i did it cos i needed the money and i saw the gap in the market. 0bviously, drug dealing is very illegal. that is a very... like, be all and end all, it is illegal. yeah. but you've got to make it as safe as possible. like, i'd rather teach other people how to do it safely. did you ever worry about the impact that it can have on people?

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Young and Addicted

us, we're notjudging them. we're here to support them and help them with their problems. we're notjudging them for drug—taking. we're not, you know, reporting them to anyone. we just want to help. the uk is not the only country which is seeing an increase in ketamine use. the european monitoring centre for drugs and drug addiction analyses waste water from a number of cities across the continent. i would say that the levels of ketamine use in the uk are similar to those observed in the netherlands, spain, france, where we are seeing an increase in the data coming from the most recent surveys. we now also have data on ketamine use coming from waste water samples. for the cities that have comparable data between �22 and �23, we saw, in the majority of the cities, an increase in ketamine use. we always get the questions, if we are sure it's non—medical use of ketamine or if it's ketamine as a medicine.

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rian's inquest ruled he died from ketamine toxicity. deaths linked to ketamine are rare, but on the rise. in the uk, the numbers of drug—related deaths following ketamine use have more than doubled in the last ten years. so this is our drug testing room. unlike rian, pagan managed to get help and has recovered after a 12—year addiction to ketamine. at her worst, she was taking more than 10g a day. it wasn't a nice experience. i was sick, dizzy and, like, kind of blacked out, so it wasn't very nice. i don't know why i carried on, but i did. and then i started injecting it into my muscles. and then that's when my bladder started to get bad. what's it like to look back now and think about your addiction when it was at its worst? i wanted to die. yeah. ijust didn't want to be alive any more. i didn't want to be in the world, in that pain, completely reliant on ketamine.

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Young and Addicted

does destroy your body. it does destroy your organs. it does destroy your bladder. we wasn't taught about it in school. i kind of wish in uk schools that they would teach children from a young age that this stuff, you stay away from these kind of chemicals. my hope now is to engage in some support groups. i have support workers now, doing something different, going to the gym, making my life better. and that's the steps, the next steps for me. i'm hoping that, you know, i'll get back into work, get back into my career path, and one day being the person that has recovered from this really rubbishjourney that i've been on. but the hope is there, and it is going to happen. lam determined. i don't want this life for myself any more. you're doing it this time. yeah. no matter how much you think it's taken your life, how much you think you've got nothing left, you can always gain that back. so it's never too late to reach out for help.

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in a statement, the uk government told us it's committed to offering support in tackling the supply of illegal drugs. it also says there are currently no plans to change the law, but drug control and harms from ketamine are under constant review. social media platforms say they do everything they can to prevent the sale of drugs. so this is rian's room? yeah, yeah. rian's mum, clare, recently met with a government representative to discuss her petition to get ketamine reclassified from a b to an a. i won't stop until it's reclassified. i've got to keep going. if i can helpjust one person, rian's death wasn't in vain, you know? it's not just an addiction... since filming, beth and jay have been trying to get off ketamine and hope sharing their stories might help others. i hope people wake up to ketamine is a horrible drug and it

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Young and Addicted

and that's what makes me want to take more k. cos then i stop thinking about stuff like that. and that's the vicious circle. to escape from that vicious circle, james dear left the uk and moved to australia and later new zealand when he was addicted to ketamine. since getting clean, james has been sharing his story through his youtube channel and podcast break the chain. i shared my insights about my life and my regrets and what i felt guilty, i felt about what i'd done to my mum and put her through, and my family. and ijust got completely positive feedback from doing this. in that time, he's noticed an increase in ketamine in australasia. when i first went to australia, i went there because i didn't think i was going to be able to get ketamine, and that was fundamentally more or less true. when i first went to brisbane, for example, it was a smaller city. i think i came into contact with it twice.

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BBC News

heart pounding. ..all together. and right onto the stage here. that's it? that's it. and this is where the stages will be built. this is where the stage is. no signs, no advertising, no scoreboards, no led boards. all gone because they hurt the acoustics of the experience. this is about the artist, it's about music, and it's about their direct relationship with their fans being right on top of them. and this is where they will stand and go, "hello, manchester!" how about, "hello, uk"? acts booked to play in the next couple of months include stevie nicks... # welcome to the hotel california...# ..the eagles for the final five uk shows ever. # i've been telling . myself for years...# and on 14th of may, manchester's elbow have a hometown show.

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BBC News

and against the broader threat that i mentioned. i5 and against the broader threat that i mentioned-— and against the broader threat that i mentioned. , ~ . , ., ., i mentioned. is ukraine planning for a worst-case _ i mentioned. is ukraine planning for a worst-case scenario _ i mentioned. is ukraine planning for a worst-case scenario if— i mentioned. is ukraine planning for a worst-case scenario if the - i mentioned. is ukraine planning for a worst-case scenario if the moneyl a worst—case scenario if the money does not get them? a worst-case scenario if the money does not get them?— a worst-case scenario if the money does not get them? yes. they have already been _ does not get them? yes. they have already been planning _ does not get them? yes. they have already been planning for— does not get them? yes. they have already been planning for that - does not get them? yes. they have already been planning for that for i already been planning for that for some time. i think there is little sense that they would be able to go on and achieve maximum objectives in the war in that worst—case scenario but they are working very hard to increase domestic production of ammunition and weapons and armoured vehicles and especially of drones they are looking to strengthen alliances and cooperation with other countries particularly a number of european countries, germany, france, scandinavia and the uk. but there is an awareness in kyiv that without america, even a coalition of european countries who have significantly increased support for ukraine, would struggle to replace

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