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HibsSM1979

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For some reason, never watched it when it was on the tv in 1998 but watched it all the last couple of days on YouTube. Harrowing and a reminder how bad things were in places like Muirhouse in the 1980’s with the heroin use and HIV/AID’s epidemic that hit these schemes hard. I’m not here to judge, no one deserved to contract that disease which was a death sentence at that time. Any way, brilliant drama and can’t believe I didn’t watch it at the time. Robert Carlyle was brilliant as usual
 
HibsSM1979 said:
For some reason, never watched it when it was on the tv in 1998 but watched it all the last couple of days on YouTube. Harrowing and a reminder how bad things were in places like Muirhouse in the 1980’s with the heroin use and HIV/AID’s epidemic that hit these schemes hard. I’m not here to judge, no one deserved to contract that disease which was a death sentence at that time. Any way, brilliant drama and can’t believe I didn’t watch it at the time. Robert Carlyle was brilliant as usual
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Was it was set in Sighthill? I seem tae remember the flats out that way when I watched it. My auld auntie stayed in one of them.
 
Never even heard of it before, but will check it out. Anything with Robert Carlyle in it tends to be good.
His portrayal of Begbie is up there with anything I have seen.
Edinburgh and I suppose Scotland in general was a grim place in the 70s/80s. Heroin is one evil bastard of a drug. I know a few decent boys who were ruined by it, some not here to tell the tale.I was far from an angel in my youth, but thankfully I never entertained it, had many opportunities though.
Turn a different corner and all that. Scarey.
 
Funnily enough I watched this a few weeks ago. Was talking about it with a mate not so long ago as we both watched it when it was on tv but were surprised the BBC have never repeated it. Was pleased to find it on Youtube.
 
tayside hibee said:
Never even heard of it before, but will check it out. Anything with Robert Carlyle in it tends to be good.
His portrayal of Begbie is up there with anything I have seen.
Edinburgh and I suppose Scotland in general was a grim place in the 70s/80s. Heroin is one evil bastard of a drug. I know a few decent boys who were ruined by it, some not here to tell the tale.I was far from an angel in my youth, but thankfully I never entertained it, had many opportunities though.
Turn a different corner and all that. Scarey.
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He is class mate. Great actor. I was a kid through the 80’s so it passed me by in a way but I remember the scare stories and so I have to admit that Muirhouse in particular gave me the heebie jeebies (apologies to anyone from that area, I’m only talking as someone who was a child/teenager who heard the scare stories at the time). Tragic what happened. I’m not here to judge. It’s ok standing back and saying someone shouldn’t take drugs and take risks but it’s a different thing entirely when you are brought up in a certain environment and in the thick of what happened. What makes me angry the most is what I read once, albeit I don’t know how true it was. Basically, the crux of that was that Glasgow had a bigger drug taking community, for want of a better word, at the time but they had access to clean needles etc so it didn’t take off as bad as in Edinburgh. Edinburgh was a perfect storm in that sense. This article online stated at the time, the authorities in Edinburgh cracked down strictly on drug use and one of the ways in which they did that was try to starve drug takers of the apparatus (needles, syringes etc) they utilised so they were harder to come by. Therefore, they shared equipment and the virus escalated. Like I say, don’t know how much truth there is in that article but it seems to explain a lot as to why schemes like Muirhouse had it so bad
 
HibsSM1979 said:
He is class mate. Great actor. I was a kid through the 80’s so it passed me by in a way but I remember the scare stories and so I have to admit that Muirhouse in particular gave me the heebie jeebies (apologies to anyone from that area, I’m only talking as someone who was a child/teenager who heard the scare stories at the time). Tragic what happened. I’m not here to judge. It’s ok standing back and saying someone shouldn’t take drugs and take risks but it’s a different thing entirely when you are brought up in a certain environment and in the thick of what happened. What makes me angry the most is what I read once, albeit I don’t know how true it was. Basically, the crux of that was that Glasgow had a bigger drug taking community, for want of a better word, at the time but they had access to clean needles etc so it didn’t take off as bad as in Edinburgh. Edinburgh was a perfect storm in that sense. This article online stated at the time, the authorities in Edinburgh cracked down strictly on drug use and one of the ways in which they did that was try to starve drug takers of the apparatus (needles, syringes etc) they utilised so they were harder to come by. Therefore, they shared equipment and the virus escalated. Like I say, don’t know how much truth there is in that article but it seems to explain a lot as to why schemes like Muirhouse had it so bad
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The way I heard it was the Wedgie heroin user was less likely to inject and were missing out on the real hit that shooting up provided. Another theory was the East got shite gear and that led to more IV use and that led to Edinburgh and Dundee having such a high number of HIV cases.
 
Westside Green said:
The way I heard it was the Wedgie heroin user was less likely to inject and were missing out on the real hit that shooting up provided. Another theory was the East got shite gear and that led to more IV use and that led to Edinburgh and Dundee having such a high number of HIV cases.
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Could have been mate, I’m just going off what I read and I can’t say for sure if that was true but aye, everything that could go wrong seemed to do so in Edinburgh. Think I mind a GP called Dr Robertson who had a huge number of HIV cases on his hands at the time
 
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Could have been mate, I’m just going off what I read and I can’t say for sure if that was true but aye, everything that could go wrong seemed to do so in Edinburgh. Think I mind a GP called Dr Robertson who had a huge number of HIV cases on his hands at the time
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One set of works passed round everybody in a room was common. I knew quite a few people who ended up with the virus, most gone but some still going strong.
 
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Westside Green said:
One set of works passed round everybody in a room was common. I knew quite a few people who ended up with the virus, most gone but a some still going strong.
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Yeah thankfully, the virus is not a death sentence these days and seems as if those who have it can, with the right medication, lead a full life. Must have been scary as hell back in the 80’s though. Recently watched that series, it’s a sin, set in those times, another good drama
 
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