The dude on the right is probably the most realistic and honest. A shame. 24 years old and quite bright.

Even the junkies had class back then

@Duke_of_Seshington

Жыл бұрын

😂👌

@KingLoon3y

Жыл бұрын

Touch of class goes a long way

@aric.d

Жыл бұрын

I know right 🤣

@thefreedomofliverpool6284

Жыл бұрын

It’s the methadone and tablets that the state gave addicts to counteract heroin. It turned them into violent zombies with slurred constipated voices.

@25pappy

Жыл бұрын

Middle class drug back then. Once it hit the flats it was gameover

Mad to put a perspective on time. We are the same distance from this instance as they were, at that time, from the Civil War / Independence. Dunno why that sprung to mind....

@davebrayfb

2 ай бұрын

What independence?

Fascinating. As others had said, it is amazing how articulate they are. I remember watching a clip on Reeling in the Years in Ballymun and the housewives talked like aristocrats. Amazing how language has evolved in Dublin.

@doublemarvellous5525

Жыл бұрын

in a bad way unfortunately. Dubs are very funny tho

@phototac9287

Жыл бұрын

Nice crack heads from Ireland

@TheBomber15

Жыл бұрын

I feel ‘devolved’ would be more apt. It’s really a shame.

@stephenmurray9228

Жыл бұрын

Sayin Add a high register when you listen to Irish people who have n😅thing to lose Its likelisten😅ng to Beowulf

@michaelwalsh9145

Жыл бұрын

Are they still alive?

Wow, even junkies in the 70's are more eloquent than most Dublin residents now.

@shane6115

Жыл бұрын

That’s a very broad statement to make, it’s if you know most Dublin people.

@countsmyth

Жыл бұрын

@@shane6115 I'm from Dublin 🙂

@shane6115

Жыл бұрын

@@countsmyth ok 👍 fair enough then. We are aloud to slag our own 😀

@jb6368

Жыл бұрын

​@@countsmyth sorry to hear that lol

@oleggorky906

Жыл бұрын

The guy on the far right seemed well spoken, even if softly so. I noticed during the interview that he had a bout of the infamous opiate itch. I wonder if any of them ever got clean. Does Ireland offer a substitute programme, such as methadone and Subutex? Here in the UK, things have improved somewhat. It used to take about three months from the point of referral to be put on a daily script. Now it can be done in as little as 48 hours, with most being accommodated within five working days.

Drugs were a middle class hippy thing back in Dublin in the 60s and 70s. Once the working class got a taste for drugs though, it was all over…

God Bless those fallen, I hope that they are some point in their lives found healing and PEACE. Thank you CR. for post.🙏🇮🇪🙏

Love the simplicity of the filming. You can even hear the gentle wind in the background

Wow he hit the nail on the head, “it releases my inhibitions” I hope he’s done well or at least he’s speaking has done so thing for someone.

Bless them, poor people. But for the grace of God go any of us.

I lived in Dublin for almost 11years and know many youngsters died of drug overdoses Fatima Mansions , Dolphins Barn and Michaels Estate devastated by drugs and death. These places were so bad they had to be demolished. Fatima Mansions was frightening many overdoses and deaths.

Genuinely didn’t realise that heroine was available in Dublin as early as the 1970s, my understanding was that the first big time heroine dealer could be traced back to the early 1980s, he was from around the O’Connell Street area and was “credited” with bringing the heroine epidemic to the city. Agree that the drug users being interviewed are extremely articulate and eloquent, even if they’ve limited insight regarding their drug use.

@pauldoporto6811

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you're thinking of Larry Dunne,who was the first big importer of heroin.There was always a bit floating around before that though.People would bring it back from Holland or India/Pakistan in smaller amounts and those who were into it would always be able to find some.Some people knew sympathetic doctors that would prescribed other opiates when they couldn't find heroin.I don't think methadone was available in those days.

@jodiemcbrodie4997

Жыл бұрын

@@pauldoporto6811 Yes, just had a look into Larry Dunne online, he started selling heroine in the late 1970s. Another name that comes to mind is Anthony "Tony" Felloni. He was married to a sister of Mannix Flynn. Tony Felloni started selling heroine a few years after Larry Dunne, in the 1980s.

@shutup2751

Жыл бұрын

it's creepy looking at this video seeing how small the scene was back then, now those importing drugs into the country are more powerful than the likes of larry dunne could even dream of

@deeppurple883

Жыл бұрын

Prescribed heroine them days. Then Larry came along. ✌🏿☘️

@Klynch111

Жыл бұрын

Was filoni not responsible for bringjng heroin to Dublin?

50 years after are anyone in this video still among us? I would be really surprised if so…

@conorcrosbie9338

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely, I’m from Dublin and live in British Columbia and the gentleman in the middle is living on the streets in the city where I live. He’s in good health the last time I seen him and is well known around the city and is helped out by local business owners. He’s a soft soul and always in good form.

@ko0974

2 ай бұрын

​@conorcrothank you he comes across as an old soul even 50 years agosbie9338

I think we're just amazed at how well spoken and articulate these people are. Would love to know where they ended up

@Lilly-hh9es

Жыл бұрын

Dead

@Goosefrabba

8 ай бұрын

@@Lilly-hh9es😂😂

Would love to know if any of these people are still alive now ? or what happened to them in life ? They seemed pretty together in fairness. Guess they'd be in their early Seventies now ...

@harleymonroe_xx5307

Жыл бұрын

The woman Dolores is my grandmother (more like my mother ) she passed away from cancer she married her soul mate had 4 kids 3 girls and 1 boy , I was her youngest daughters daughter, the first born grand child she was the most loving kind hearted human to ever walk the earth ..she raised me with my grandad two absolute old school gems and thought me everything I know sadly they both passed wen I was 8

@thedublindemon3177

Жыл бұрын

@@harleymonroe_xx5307 she’s my great auntie, I have the same last name as her Mulhall

@patkearney9320

Жыл бұрын

​@@harleymonroe_xx5307And in you the Jem shines brightly regards to you and yours what a wonderful moment in time? She married her soul mate that's a blessing that good spring's from you.

@cakepudding3220

Жыл бұрын

@@harleymonroe_xx5307 How comes your grandma raised you. May I ask what happened to your parents? X

@alanchamberlain9902

6 ай бұрын

@@harleymonroe_xx5307 What year did she pass away?

"Although I do fix regularly I haven't got a habit" 😂

@HimWitDaHair98

Жыл бұрын

Ah yeah I OD'd 3 or 4 times, but I think a person knows how much is enough

@gerthie

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@jimbobjimjim6500

Жыл бұрын

Doesnt get more Irish than that......Im Irish.

50 years ago already .. i wonder how their lives turned out

@harleymonroe_xx5307

Жыл бұрын

I'm the woman's grandchil

@masterofpain120

Жыл бұрын

​@@harleymonroe_xx5307 frfr?

@antseanbheanbocht4993

Ай бұрын

How'd she get on ​@@harleymonroe_xx5307

Sad, hope they all pulled through and got off the smack.

Why are drug addicted people so well spoken in the 1970s

@seekp2676

Жыл бұрын

its europe 😆

@aj2080xy6

Жыл бұрын

You'll find archive interviews covering any issue are generally better spoken. Not sure why but compared to the contemporary equivalents who sound like a lobotomised Joe Duffy. I get the feeling this is back before 1mg/ml Phy was the standard maintenance treatment and it was managed by a few GPs using ad hoc brown and green prescribing. The main drug of choice then would've been either hash, solvents or glue but it was also when Christy Brown started importing the heroin and the garda in charge of drug enforcement was regularly slagged off for looking for his bucket of morphine. Just shows how much public services new about it then. There was no formal detox protocol except in a few hospitals, usually privately, and places like Coolmine were only on the drawing board. At least it hadn't become such an epidemic just yet and there was more grey area medical treatment available instead of just criminalising it under the MDA 1973. Even up until the 2000s, the standard detox protocol in Mountjoy was a 3 day Phy taper which was worse than useless.

@sevans606

8 ай бұрын

​@@aj2080xy6was it not Christy Dunne or Kinahan

@tomgreene1843

Ай бұрын

They were educated under an older system....but we got smart and threw it out.

@sadhu7191

Ай бұрын

I am and I look clean like I don't take drugs

They spoke a lot of sense

how did no one think back then in 1973 about nipping the problem in the bud then ? now look at the streets of dublin today it's a billion times worse than back then

@AJ00074

3 ай бұрын

Many families tried very hard to get the pushers out of the flats. It turned out to be easier said than done though…

These r the best spoken junkies ever

These people are not typical of the working class heroin addict that became the norm from the late seventies onwards. These people are obviously educated and articulate

@shutup2751

Жыл бұрын

@@johnbalance3989 who was supplying it at the time though ?

@patmurphy6843

Жыл бұрын

that's is not at all true, and classist.

@khiggins7231

Ай бұрын

@@patmurphy6843It is true. Heroine was not a big problem at the time and most of it was brought in from England.

Nice people. More likely alot nicer than those 'running' the country.

@tommiemanga4397

Жыл бұрын

Amen

@anneliamohara2842

Жыл бұрын

Never seen this before , from Dublin myself Gardiner street Mountjoy square . Very good documentary . Living in the States now .

@1choccoman

Жыл бұрын

You're a clown!!

@patrickglennon7058

Жыл бұрын

@@anneliamohara2842 what city?

I remember as a kid growing up, in the late 70/ 80,s , we were made to FEAR heroin addicts!, And if you saw one walking funny , like out of his face?, You litterly would be terrified! , The things is back in those days they had no methadone to fall back on, so those addicts would have been suffering terrible from withdrawal!, And Kids now days are litterly raised with addict parents or raised in a housing estate were drugs are all around them and they are soo used to it , some even start hanging out with the young lads who are selling it , who are usually in their late teens or early twenties. , I saw boys as young as 13 selling coke and heroin and crack and they were doing the drill like they was all grown up, I shook my head and walked away in disbelief!! 🤔😳🙊 It,s sad because you can bet they will be spending alot of their youth in and out of prison!🥺😟

And it's going through the DTs of alcoholic and benzoates addiction that can kill you...

not all of us addicts are stereotypical of what society brandished us

God love them🙏

i didnt know there was heroin going around in dublin that long ago....

@patrickball2493

Жыл бұрын

I think it was all smoked, inhaled but not injected . That method of injecting didn't arise until the 80s .

Thanks 👍

Wow back then drug addict were well spoken

@johnathandaviddunster38

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Seem like nice people

It just shows you that alcohol is worse than heroin, an alcoholic would never be this articulate, the problem with heroin addicts that makes them get such a bad reputation is that they have to get the cash to get their drugs every day and that’s where the problem lies But the drug itself doesn’t have a big effect on the brain cells or the personality in a bad way (not in comparison to alcohol anyway)

@raborian

Жыл бұрын

Nah... loads of alcoholics can hide it, and can be just as articulate as this lot. What about the heroin addicts that you see sprawled out down back alleys of O connell Street.. how articulate are they in your opinion?

@paulmcgrath6118

Жыл бұрын

Are you serious ? Have you ever had a proper conversation with someone after they have banged up

@theliamofella

Жыл бұрын

@Paul McGrath considering I’ve been a heroin addict for over 20 years now and a crack addict for about 15 years I think I have seen one or two, and as alcohol is a curse on my family (my mother doesn’t drink but it’s destroyed her life) my dad died from alcohol and 9 uncles died from alcohol abuse, and many alcoholics in my family (I’m from a very big family) , yeah someone who has shot up will drift off into a kind of living death, but they usually won’t beat up their wife and children because of it (unless it’s about money), Both will destroy your soul amd your reputation and your life, the only good drugs in my opinion are the psychedelics ✌️

@theliamofella

Жыл бұрын

@Rory Kennedy thanks for your reply, I only just seen it, my reply is for you too, ✌️👍

@paulmcgrath6118

Жыл бұрын

@@theliamofella I never said anything about beating their kids up but just trying to have a conversation with someone on heroin is painful, lots of people can function on it to an extent but I knew plenty who would just fall asleep half way through a conversation or even while they were having a smoke , getting ash or hot rocks everywhere. I wouldn’t say I ever knew a drug addict I could rely on for anything , though many were nice people

Damn Beatniks!

I hope they got it together they had a lot to give what a wasre

Probably would have been more informative to have interviewed them individually....wonder what eventually happened to them

I wonder what came of them?? It was a different world ... I remember the dandelion market, the hippest place in Dublin

When drugs made people eloquent and content. Drugs must have dis-improved somewhat.

I’ve been fixing every day for 6 years - but I don’t have a habit !!! 🤦

Wonder are they still with us ....hope they were happy

Very early video of People before profit

@JamesBarometer-jv9kk

6 ай бұрын

😃

It sure is a self-absorbed activity. No service to anyone else in society in their minds. Very very fatalistic and sad.

Pity they’re not like that now…

My type of addict

They sound more like actors than addicts. Unless the heroin was much milder then.

The guy in the middle is hardly that chap Pauly T who has rhe KZread chanel interviewing people around Dublin. Its called kold turkey i think

@patmurphy6843

Жыл бұрын

is he over 70

@daniellecamp4963

17 күн бұрын

@koldturkey is that u?

Stephen's Green ?

The Interviewer is such a square - These three individuals would flourish in another Country, I hope they Emigrated and I hope they're still with us.

@YesOkayButWhy

4 ай бұрын

?

Guy on the right is a waffler. Met many like him.

I wonder if they arè still alive

@philipmaguire7638

2 ай бұрын

The girl Delores otherwise known as dodo died a few years back rip

They look like the hungerstrikers but more upmarket

Consider this: even heroin addicts in 1973 were more well-spoken and better dressed than the President of the United States of America in 2024.

These people speak quite eloquently.

how does the interviewer know he won't get hit with a bus, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

VANESSA (Co Cork)

@bizzjoe

Жыл бұрын

Can you elaborate ?

@swisstony5237

Жыл бұрын

Lol.....more info please!

@YesOkayButWhy

4 ай бұрын

"Moving down the water John is drifting out of sight, Its only at the turning point That you find out how you fight. In the cold, feel the cold All around And the rush of crashing water Surrounds me with its sound. Striking out to reach you I can't get through to the other side, When you're racing in the rapids There's only one way, that's to ride. Taken down, taken down By the undertow I'm spiraled down the river bed, My fire is burning low. Catching hold of a rock that's firm, I'm waiting for John to be carried past. We hold together, hold together and shoot the rapids fast. And when the waters slow down The dark and the deep Have no-one, no-one, no-one, no-one No-one left to keep. Hang on John! We're out of this at last. Somethings changed, that's not your face. It's mine - it's mine!"

@ItsRael108

4 ай бұрын

@@YesOkayButWhy great lyrics 🎼🇬🇧

@YesOkayButWhy

4 ай бұрын

@@ItsRael108 I presume you're a G fan? Or just a coincidence? The lamb.

“I’m 24 at the moment”

damn, they're cool as fuck, wanna be like them when I grow up

@user-sg5gl1gl3s

Жыл бұрын

Then you should start with reading the Naked Lunch first

@looooove1410

Жыл бұрын

@@user-sg5gl1gl3s that comment was just an edgy joke, actually I was just about to buy this book next week :)

@user-sg5gl1gl3s

Жыл бұрын

@@looooove1410 I kinda sensed that, book is fascinating, also might wanna check out the Burroughs' own narration of some excerpts from it here on KZread. Best of wishes, amigo

@fredfredericks3496

Жыл бұрын

Sort your life out if that's the case. These are actors, the same way Bill Gates acts as a scientist. Screw your head on right, and thank me later.

Got a euro.. I mean a pound for the bus.. Lovely to hear they aren't asking for busfare😂

Back when the Dubs could speak English 😂😂

They must have had a more natural drug back then. Whatever synthetic crap they are using today they are unable to string two words together. I wonder did they make it through their addiction.

The man on the right side sure "feels" a lot, but he does not "think" much. If he had to pay for his own hospital care, he might not take so many drugs.

@theeggtimertictic1136

Жыл бұрын

I agree but we could say the same about alcohol or smoking even though it's legal over 18 ... Bizarre.

@decmurray1096

Жыл бұрын

If punitive measures worked as a deterrent, the US would have less drug taking. It sounds like you're suggesting that they get left to die after an OD?

@christinesbetterknitting4533

Жыл бұрын

@decmurray1096 I suggest they become responsible for their own healthcare costs if they feel like taking drugs for fun.

@decmurray1096

Жыл бұрын

@@christinesbetterknitting4533 And that's why there's 50,000 opioid deaths per year in the US. Compare that to Portugal where they have reduced opioid deaths by 50% through decriminalisation, education and rehabilitation. One way exacerbates things, the other improves. Which is preferable to you?

@paddyt4043

Жыл бұрын

With what I pay in cigarette taxes I pay for every bit of health care I get and alot more

So would I, they'd be in there 70s maybe 80s, most are gone 😅😅

Old Maureen or whatever her name was was a delight to dupe

All ya get these days is mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Dykenol then

Before aids

I presume these three are dead now

@howardmckeown7187

5 ай бұрын

and?

Funny I grew up ireland 80s 90s and never heard or notice drugs now Ireland is terrible

Literally the ucd member's bar club and the upper class started the shit

...I wonder how things ended for these knowitalls

@YesOkayButWhy

4 ай бұрын

Knowitalls??

Isn’t it dangerous ?.. not at all, if you’re aware of the danger. LOL

boomer truth regime :( :(

Smackheads are always so high-minded.

Wow he hit the nail on the head, “it releases my inhibitions” I hope he’s done well or at least he’s speaking has done so thing for someone.