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Drugscope have released figures naming Middlesbrough the cheapest place in the country to buy Heroin. Prices have been as low as 拢5 for a 0.2g. This may be because the town acts a transit point for drugs throughout the north east.

Joint commissioning manager for Safer Middlesbrough Partnership, Dave Jackson, appeared on 91热爆 Radio Cleveland last year about Middlesbrough having the cheapest Cocaine. With the new figures claiming Middlesbrough now has the cheapest Heroin instead, Dave explained if anything has changed:

"Things have changed, the Safer Middlesbrough Partnership works closely with all its partner organisations, and when police are involved we go out and work with them in the community.

"We amalgamated a drug action team and a crime and disorder partnership because we needed to address the problems in a different manner and we now have a huge number of people that come from the criminal justice system in to treatment."

Another problem that is on the increase is that drug dealers lower their prices to offer cheaper prices for drugs rather than let people consider the price of treatment.

"If you want quality treatment services, people are not willing to pay more."

Richard Affleck, who is a former Heroin addict but now works to help other drug users on Teesside, wasn't surprised when he learned Middlesbrough offers the cheapest Heroin:

"It's been like that for years, people travel down from all parts of the north east to buy in Teesside.

"They would rather put petrol in their car to travel here than to buy locally."

Richard explained how hard it is to give up such a strong addiction:

"It's down to yourself if you want to try to quit, I couldn't stop straight away and it hurt a lot to leave it alone without medication."

"I've been clean for eight years now and I feel brilliant, I'm getting up at 8 'o'clock in the morning and just loving life!"

To hear the full interviews with Dave Jackson and Richard Affleck, click the links in the See Also section in the top right corner of this page.