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Trainspotting exposed Scotland's drug epidemic - but did anything change?
Trainspotting smashed the box office 30 years ago with it’s realistic depiction of drug abuse in Scotland (Picture: Shutterstock) Fuelled by a blistering soundtrack and a dark sense of humour, when Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting landed in cinemas on February 23, 1996, it was a box office hit like no other. Based on Irvine Welsh’s book of the same name, the film followed Ewan McGregor’s self-assured addict Renton and friends, as they drifted throug…
For ordinary people, the world of drugs has always been surrounded by a mystique, in which the desire for liberation and rebellion is mixed with self-destruction. No matter how repulsive or creepy it may be, we still can't take our eyes off it, because it's hard to imagine why someone would start taking drugs once they know that from then on they're dancing on a knife's edge. This is especially true for heroin, about which the consensus is that …
Scotland is a sad leader in drug deaths in Europe: synthetic drugs are a growing problem.
The film Trainspotting was first shown in cinemas on 23 February 1996 and is considered by many critics to be one of the best films of the 1990s. The film is fast and raw and is based on the book of the same name by the writer Irvine Welsh. It is about a group of friends in Edinburgh, Scotland, who are deeply immersed in heroin use. However, this is much more than a story of unfortunate friends, according to Kevin Williamson. He is interviewed o…
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