Don’t know about everywhere else, but in Scotland, especially Glasgow them folk knew the dangers of smack even back in the late 80s, I had an addict uncle on both sides of family an both where some the first in Glasgow, so they might have not known but everybody after them to could see plain as day what it done to folk
iv saw folk try it through pain, grief, mental illness, weakness, curiosity, as an aide to come down off other drugs, to fit in and a whole host of other reasons, saw folk who played with it for years an it never got a grip, saw folk toot it a coulee a times aftwr th