Despite a fairly normal childhood, I never really felt comfortable in my own skin. I started using drink and drugs in my teens, like everyone else. They solved my problem, and helped me to become the person I thought I wanted to be; I partied hard and believed I’d found the key to happiness and success.
My son Paddy was 21 years old, when he died of a GBL overdose in March this year. In a stranger’s house. Early in the morning. He was born in Eastbourne and died in Brighton. IT’S fair to say that Paddy was hedonistic and lived to party. Highly intelligent and sociable, he was the centre of his many groups of friends, in Brighton, Sheffield, Hull and Eastbourne.
Brighton drug dealer jailed for supplying cocktail of drugs including crystal meth, cocaine and amphetamines which he advertised as ‘party bags’ in the city. Ashley Richardson, 29, of Springfield Road, pleaded guilty to five counts of supplying class A drugs – three of supplying crystal meth, one of cocaine, one of MDMA and five counts of possession with intent to supply cocaine, crystal meth, MDMA, amphetamine and ketamine at an earlier hearing on November 30 after being arrested earlier that month.
Home Office minister Karen Bradley paid a visit to the Earls Court based Club Drug Clinic on Tuesday, January 26 ahead of today’s Psychoactive Substances Bill gaining Royal Assent and becoming law.
