To think this scumbag "mother" should have her child taken from her?

[HungryHelga]

Woman licks methadone from the pavement in Scotland as her child looks on.

This disgusts me. How can anyone have so little self-respect to do this, and with her child there as well?

They did a feature on my SF. None of it was accurate. (was a sport story, nothing that could provoke a catsbummouth)

Redlsob sorry if I misjudged your post but I hate all that 'blue-nose' shit, it's so depressing...

It is depressing norman sorry I was just using a turn of phrase. I am product of my post war Glasgow outcast small town mentality sometimes which seems to be the readership the Record is after :)

(agree about Paulo fucking Nutini)

MadameOvary I suspect the person who took the picture was involved in the whole thing and flogged it to the paper for a small amount of money and split it.

Desperate people make money where they can. That's often not very nice.

The paper should not be encouraging them.

Junkie Does Degrading Thing To Get Drugs is not even news.

And, I'm ashamed to say, , I would have licked that pavement too.
That is how desperate it is.

Not anymore Lady :). Well done! You are a wonderful example that addiction isn't the end, People can get better.

Lets not dismiss the "scumbags" so easily.

LadyBeagleEyes Well done you .
And I am pretty sure that any addict would have licked that pavement too.

Would you mind if I ask how you managed to get clean? Does weaning yourself off of the methadone work, or is it best to do 'cluck' as I gather it is called (we are down south if that makes a difference)?
Tho I do know that you have to really want to get off of it.

If this is too personal a question please ignore me, I will not mind a bit .

hi just to add somethings about the addict licking the methadone of the pavement she is 44 year old addict and hads 21 year old son and a 18 year old girl

And how is she now...8 months on from when this thread was started?

I am compelled to post something here in the hopes of bridging the gap between people who understand the hellhole life that leads to addiction and those that don't (and on one level I am so very happy for them that they don't!)

Compassion is not a finite resource... and it is possible to have immense compassion for the child involved in this picture, whilst still having compassion for the human being that obviously feels their best option is to lick methadone from a pavement.

Would you still have compassion for that child if a little later, at the age of 10, she began giving her "stepfather" sexual favours at his persuasion in return for a few candies (because there is precious little pleasure in her life, and even less love, and she feels like maybe... just maybe, he loves her?).

Would you still have compassion for her if even later on, at the age of 12, she begins sneaking a drink from her "stepfather's" hidden alcohol stash, because she is now being beaten by the man who she thought loved her, and its the one and only thing that seems to numb her world of pain for a little while... and because she is too afraid of the world and ashamed to go anywhere else for help?

Would you still have compassion for her if later, at the age of 14 and with a desperate crushing mental torment, and a world entirely void of love, she lets her first "boyfriend" who is far older than her (and she feels like maybe... just maybe he loves her?), inject her with something that he promises will take away all her pain.

Because if that little girl was to go through that chain of events, in a few more years she would be the woman licking methadone off a pavement as she struggles to deal with the addiction that has been born. And it is these sorts of events and lives (from a very, very young age) that tend to birth heroin addicts.

They need help and compassion because so very many of them have had precious little of anything warm and human in their lives, and simply have not had the chance to develop the same sort of personal strength and emotional stability that so many of us have been nurtured enough to develop.

Just to clarify... the chain of events I described is not hypothetical, and describes the actual experience of a human being who was a heroin addict and is currently a methadone user.

I used to have to change buses late at night in wester hailes that place scared the shit out me and I was born and raised in Glasgow!

i say well done to her, for getting herself onto the metadrone programme in a bid to get her self away from drugs.

this mother needs help and support, not her picture broadcasted for all the see.

scaredbutdoingit if that's you love, or if it's not, really well put. That says all i wanted to say, but so much better than i could have said it. nice one xx

FFS I don't expect to come on to MN and seem sectarianism all over the place.
Comments like the " daily ranger" "ibrox" WTF has rangers got to do with this story! Casual racism is unacceptable but it's only sectarianism so that alright folks.