this is true especially for East Anglia which is a coastal area (smugglers paradise) but the rave scene still has the most blatant and unrepentant culture of drug use across the UK.

I know Stow has bare smackheads (theres a ongoing murder trial involving them) as does ipswich but they don’t go around with a placard with ADDICT around their necks, or spend hours on computer networks bigging up their culture (well they probably would sell any computers they had for a fix). Even the opiate users on here are a bit ashamed, but ravers rarely accept there is any darkside to their culture (even when they are becoming racist reactionaries and psychotic on comedowns like some of the norfolk youths)

Also, and this may be something noticed more by slightly older people but drugs were fairly hard to get until the early 90s and the start of the rave scene, (and even as a teenager I used to knock around with anarchists and hippies who could normally get drugs) – then pills and cannabis were everywhere…

Ipswich is actually way better to live in than London or Reading despite its problems – and I live in IP2, with crackhouses and the brook where Tania Nicol (a high school friend of some of my new mates) was found in literally down the road..