As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up

Re:As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead P... by giobox on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:33AM (#20654693)

The Macfarlan Smith link is interesting and not something I’ve ever heard before. Is there any other information on this on the web or elsewhere? A google for “Macfarlan Smith” and “Heroin” only returns your comment here as best I could find in a few minutes of searching.

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Re:As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead P... by jdietrich on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:00PM (#20655564)

As a pharmaceutical product, heroin is called diamorphine, which should turn up more information. This article from The Scotsman newspaper mentions the theft of diamorphine from the MacFarlan Smith factory.

https://www.scotsman.com/news-2-15012/drug-menace-off-the-st...

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Re:As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead P... by giobox on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:42PM (#20655988)

Thanks for the link!

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Re:As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead P... by jdietrich on Friday August 09, 2019 @02:09PM (#20656900)

You may also be interested in this interview with Dr Roy Robertson, who was one of the first to identify the heroin problem in Edinburgh and the subsequent outbreak of HIV/AIDS.

https://www.holyrood.com/articles/inside-politics/choose-lif...

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Re:As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead P... by GavriloPrincep on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:35PM (#20658755)

The first of Irvine Welsh's "Trainspotting" books, the prequel "Skagboys", has that factory as a core component of a few of its story lines. I though Skagboys was at least as good as Trainspotting, and I'm glad I read it first.

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