The distinction, in the public eye, of drug use between middle-class young people and those in less affluent areas was highlighted by a sentencing judge yesterday.
Judge Gerard O’Brien said a sense of middle-class entitlement by young people looking for the “greatest high” formed the background to a Co Cork teenager’s death at an orgy of drink and drugs.
Teenager Alex Ryan paid the ultimate price by taking a so-called designer drug, N-bomb, at a Cork City party last January.
The judge, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, also pointed out the media’s interest in the case.
“What is recreational drug use for the upper middle class,” he said, “is scumbag drug use for those who live in less affluent areas.
“The application of designer drug is a self-serving and justifying term.”
Source: Irish Examiner, 28/11/2016
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