The Lancashire seaside resort tops that list and has recorded the highest rate of deaths involving heroin or morphine of any other council district since 2010. “Seaside towns often have far more in common with each other, even if they’re 200 miles apart, than they have with towns that are 20 miles inland,” he says. The demise of many British seaside towns cannot be viewed as part of the general trend of deindustrialisation that brought economic decline in some of their inland neighbours, he argues. Everybody in the town has a responsibility to help address its drug problems, he says. It’s a lovely place to be.”He thinks everybody in the town should feel a sense of responsibility to help address its drug problems.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2018 13:30 UTC