When you're jumping a counter or doing a burglary you're feeling adrenalin and very apprehensive. But that fix means more to you than anything else. What heroin does is it pulls a blanket over your emotional centres.
You're on a one-track mission to get out of your head. I went to any lengths. I stabbed people. I tortured a bloke once. I poured petrol over him and set his feet on fire. I bit the nose off people in fights. I beat a person to a pulp, and I sold heroin. I used to be known as the Blackrock cat burglar.
All the junkies that they locked up for syringe robberies, they become psychotic. It's pure madness. You don't care about anybody. Drug addicts come out a lot more psychotic. Then they lock them up again and pretend they've cured it again.
Drugs were never the problem. The problem was why people needed to use drugs. Counsellors are full of shit and sympathy. All addicts tell them lies and manipulate them.
There's no treatment for junkies. There's just control. They stabilise you in a clinic and then push treatment out to doctors. You wrap yourself in a bubble because if you stop taking methadone you get withdrawal but then everything you started taking drugs to avoid comes back. If the junkie doesn't conform to the clinics he'll end up in prison.
Drugs are an emotional illness brought about by an uncaring society. If you take drugs like alcohol and you're emotionally balanced then you won't get addicted. And there is no emotional counselling for junkies. They just use medication to blank it out.
Your next backlash will happen around Christmas or just after Christmas when a lot of people are due to get out. The concerned parents can't maintain vigilance. The whole drug treatment programme is designed to hide it from the public and frighten the junkie with the alternative of prison.
They keep harping on about stability. But there is no treatment in this country for drug addicts. They can drag out methadone programmes for 10 years, making every taxpayer a secondary drug dealer. I don't think people realise that their taxes are paying for this methadone.
They keep putting the pressure on the hardcore junkie and forgetting about the 14- and 15-yearolds. But what they don't realise is that they're on their way to becoming the hardcore junkies everyone hates.