The 'Drug Pusher': An Urban Myth?

Chuck Stone · 28-06-2011 08:15PM #1

We all heard of the notorious 'drug pusher'. He hangs around outside schools and gives free drugs to children and then *bam* the children become addicted and Mr. Drug Pusher has a lifelong customer to feed off.

Personally I think the Drug Pusher is an urban myth that is rolled out when people are looking for a scapegoat. Imo the issue is that people actually want drugs and therefore they will be supplied.

Parents and the authorities like to construct the bogey man drug pusher for their own selfish reasons. Parents to deflect blame from their drug dabbling children and the authorities to keep the prohibition farce going.

I can state categorically that I have never once been offered free drugs from a stranger nor do I know anyone that has.

Have you ever been been the subject of or witnessed 'Drug Pushing'?

(Not being offered - actual drug pushing for those who have difficulty understanding this OP)

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starbelgrade · 28-06-2011 08:17PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I can state categorically that I have never once been offered free drugs from a stranger nor do I know anyone that has.

Then you've lived a very sheltered life.

Guy:Incognito · 28-06-2011 08:19PM

I've lived in Tallaght all my life and I've never even been offered drugs that cost money by strangers, nevermind free ones.

Mr. Manager · 28-06-2011 08:20PM

In the Q for the toilets in a nightclub got offered what I thought was coke, turned out to be ketamine. Lost use of legs just at the front door of the house.

starviewadams · 28-06-2011 08:20PM

Been offered them loadsa times on the street,take a walk around Thomas Street/Christchurch or Talbot Street and you're almost guaranteed to be asked ''are ya lookin''.Been even offered some a few times while waiting for the bus home on Aston Quay.

Been offered coke,speed and hash in clubs and pubs too.

Used to see open dealing opposite the bus stop on Ballyfermot Road nearly every day when I was in college down there too.

Chuchoter · 28-06-2011 08:20PM

Speaking as secondary school student, I've never had drugs pushed on me, I've a plethora of friends I can just ring

starbelgrade · 28-06-2011 08:21PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I've lived in Tallaght all my life and I've never even been offered drugs that cost money by strangers, nevermind free ones.

Oooh... Southsider.

Chuck Stone · 28-06-2011 08:22PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Then you've lived a very sheltered life.

A poor snap judgement. Maybe you should consider asking it as a question?

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RussellTuring · 28-06-2011 08:22PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

We all heard of the notorious 'drug pusher'. He hangs around outside schools and gives free drugs to children and then *bam* the children become addicted and Mr. Drug Pusher has a lifelong customer to feed off.

Personally I think the Drug Pusher is an urban myth that is rolled out when people are looking for a scapegoat. Imo the issue is that people actually want drugs and therefore they will be supplied.

Parents and the authorities like to construct the bogey man drug pusher for their own selfish reasons. Parents to deflect blame from their drug dabbling children and the authorities to keep the prohibition farce going.

I agree. People take drugs because they want to. Apart from forcibly injecting someone with a heroin-filled syringe, it is the individual's choice whether or not they take them. I've never been offered drugs by a stranger either, only people I know. If I were offered drugs by a stranger and decided to take them it would only be because I wanted to anyway and suddenly had the opportunity.

Actually scratch that. I've been offered a few times, especially around Thomas St. and Talbot St. They probably weren't free trials, however, so my point stands.

Chuck Stone · 28-06-2011 08:23PM

starviewadams wrote: »

Been offered them loadsa times on the street

Offered is not pushed. You might actually be looking for them after all.

Yakult · 28-06-2011 08:23PM

Jeez, last time I heard about that story was in the 80's and I wasn't even alive!

starbelgrade · 28-06-2011 08:24PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

A poor snap judgement.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Parents and the authorities like to construct the bogey man drug pusher for their own selfish reasons. Parents to deflect blame from their drug dabbling children and the authorities to keep the prohibition farce going.

Touche.

tayto lover · 28-06-2011 08:25PM

RussellTuring wrote: »

I agree. People take drugs because they want to. Apart from forcibly injecting someone with a heroin-filled syringe, it is the individual's choice whether or not they take them. I've never been offered drugs by a stranger either, only people I know. If I were offered drugs by a stranger and decided to take them it would only be because I wanted to anyway and suddenly had the opportunity.

So its not a stranger then at all, its your friend who is the drug pusher.

Mr. Manager · 28-06-2011 08:25PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Offered is not pushed. You might actually be looking for them after all.

Define the difference.

By the sounds of things you are making out that a "drug pusher" is force feeding people.

Guy:Incognito · 28-06-2011 08:26PM

starviewadams wrote: »

Been offered them loadsa times on the street,take a walk around Thomas Street/Christchurch or Talbot Street and you're almost guaranteed to be asked ''are ya lookin''.Been even offered some a few times while waiting for the bus home on Aston Quay.

Been offered coke,speed and hash in clubs and pubs too.

Used to see open dealing opposite the bus stop on Ballyfermot Road nearly every day when I was in college down there too.

I worked in Ballyfermot for years then on O'Connell street. Never been offered anything at all.

Guy:Incognito · 28-06-2011 08:26PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Oooh... Southsider.

I am from the posh part though in fairness, It's practically D4

Chardee MacDennis · 28-06-2011 08:29PM

The OP seems to be asking whether a dealer has offered you free drugs to get you hooked. OP it has never happened to me anyway!

Seachmall · 28-06-2011 08:31PM

I got offered coke in a gig in Dublin once.

I refused but for some reason took his number anyway

Finnbar01 · 28-06-2011 08:31PM

I live in an area where drugs have been prevalent for years. I have never been approached by any drug dealers but I have been approached by people looking to buy drugs.

Sunnyisland · 28-06-2011 08:32PM

I see it everyday, House across the road from me is a sellers house,forever been raided and forever people calling in.never seen it been offered outside schools though,think that's a myth.

28-06-2011 08:32PM

anyone got a link to alison's article on this

:D

pragmatic1 · 28-06-2011 08:33PM

Never got offered them. Always had to go looking for them. I just wish I got some free samples.

EverEvolving · 28-06-2011 08:34PM

I've never been offered free drugs, where do I sign up?

RussellTuring · 28-06-2011 08:40PM

tayto lover wrote: »

So its not a stranger then at all, its your friend who is the drug pusher.

Yes. Inasmuch as offering me a point is pushing alcohol.

Paparazzo · 28-06-2011 08:41PM

I went to secondary school in inner city Dublin 1, walked down to the bus through some of the worst areas every day and this never happened to me nor did I ever hear of it happening to anyone else.

But it does happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqVrUSz62o

Chuck Stone · 28-06-2011 08:42PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Touche.

What?

Eric Cartman · 28-06-2011 08:45PM

where are these people offering free drugs and how does one find them , ive only ever been asked do i want to buy drugs

lastlaugh · 28-06-2011 08:45PM

I think the term 'drug pusher' is misleading in the sense that it conjours images of people habging around offering random people drugs.

I remember when I was around twenty I was in friend's house having a few cans. He had an older brother, about 10 yrs older than us, and he was there with his friend.

His friend had some coke and was very eager to give us a line free. We took it and went to the pub feeling great, able to drink loads, full of confidence.

I can look back now and realise that bloke was actually a drug pusher.
His nasty little game was to 'introduce' us to coke, and then when we realised it was great, we would buy more. Luckily I didn't.

But that is how they operate, give stuff out for free and rely on people coming back to pay for more...

Richard Hillman · 28-06-2011 08:49PM

Good shout actually. Nobody is actually coerced by dealers to start taking drugs, its mostly down to peer pressure. When their used to be drugs marches in my area, the people they targeted were the big time dealers that would supply the small time dealers with drugs. I always thought "Pushers" were the ones that got the drugs from the big time guys and passed them down to the small dealers. Living in an area with a fair bit of drugs, ive never been randomly offered drugs. Ive done a fair bit of drugs in my younger day but ive always had to look for them rather than being offered and if i was offered, it was from lads i know well who i would frequent custom. Drugs have never been "pushed" on me.

Finnbar01 · 28-06-2011 08:50PM

lastlaugh wrote: »

I think the term 'drug pusher' is misleading in the sense that it conjours images of people habging around offering random people drugs.

I remember when I was around twenty I was in friend's house having a few cans. He had an older brother, about 10 yrs older than us, and he was there with his friend.

His friend had some coke and was very eager to give us a line free. We took it and went to the pub feeling great, able to drink loads, full of confidence.

I can look back now and realise that bloke was actually a drug pusher.
His nasty little game was to 'introduce' us to coke, and then when we realised it was great, we would buy more. Luckily I didn't.

But that is how they operate, give stuff out for free and rely on people coming back to pay for more...

I say more like it you were very eager to take it.

You were twenty FFS.

Big Nasty · 28-06-2011 08:51PM

Only time I was offered free drugs by a total stranger was when someone passed me a J at a gig in Belgium a few years back. I was 30 at the time so he was a little late if he thought he was gonna get me hooked!:pac:

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