Crazy for Party Drugs

This programme contains very strong language.

Drugs are changing.

The old generation of party drugs, ecstasy and cocaine, are out,

and mephedrone, ketamine and GHB are in.

Mephedrone, it's the Devil's dandruff, I call it.

These new party drugs are cheap.

Does that cost me a tenner and does it get me hammered?

Yeah. Oh, yeah, whack that up your nose.

Some of them have only just been banned.

I think people saw it as because it's legal,

it's all right for ya.

And they're fuelling nights out for millions of us.

Literally, it goes on for days and days.

For the biggest party weekend of the year, Halloween and Bonfire Night,

three young people in Leeds have let us into their lives.

Your body's rushing, you're just rushed, you feel ace.

When you take something, like, your life goes in HD all of a sudden.

Mainly it was MCat. I'm going to stay awake for quite a few hours.

We'll follow them from the dance floor to the morning after.

Hey, no biting, that's not in the rules.

He's an habitual user of GHB, MCat and cocaine.

And find out what happens to those who are still going

when the party's over.

There's two sides to Holly and one of it's a party animal

and one of it's, to me, a real person,

and it's a struggle between which one's going to win.

-Hello!

-Hello, how are you?

I'm all right. How are you?

-Kettle's on.

-Ah, brilliant.

-I remember you.

Holly is 23 and lives around the corner from her dad John

and step-mum Alison.

You want a drink? Horlicks? Hot chocolate? Tea?

-Um, I'd love a cup of tea, please.

-Cup of tea. Cup of tea.

-Cuppa tea.

Holly recently delivered some shocking news.

I think it was about six or seven months ago that my dad and Alison

found out I were taking MCat.

As soon as I told 'em, it were like Alison burst into tears.

It were awful to see.

She rang her dad one morning and she was in a really, really bad way,

and we drove all round the village over the hill, trying to find out

where she was cos she didn't really know, and we found her

and she just looked disgusting, and she was exhausted

and very, very emotional and she just, that was when she said

"Look, I've been taking everything, every kind of drug there is,

"for over a year now."

Cos you know, I've been doing some research again, it's called...

Oh, my God!

Of all the drugs she was taking,

it was a new party drug called Mephedrone,

also known as Meow Meow or MCat, that took hold.

I realised I had a problem with MCat when I started getting ill

all the time, and I were massively underweight.

I were doing phew, like seven to nine grams a day.

Um, I were a mess, I were, I were a proper mess.

I've spent 23 years bringing this person up and some little toerag

gives her something that she can become addicted to.

Alters her mind, alters her personality,

she's lost all her motivation, all her creativity.

She just wants to lie around and smoke and drink and take drugs.

You know it's funny. I feel like I've lost some of my mates through this.

Six months ago, Alison persuaded Holly that she needed to get help.

She took me to the doctor's and I even went to the doctor's wired

and he's like, "When were last time you took something?"

I were like, "About two hours ago," and then I thought actually

this is getting stupid, like I need to knock this on the head.

I know what I'll do, I'll draw it on with a knife.

Since deciding to give up MCat, this is the longest Holly's been clean.

This is probably the first two weeks in months

that I've not touched it, and just having that two week break,

I couldn't think of anything worse than doing it.

I mean, like, when I did go out I was craving it by the end of the night

cos I was getting tired, but I thought, no, I don't really need it.

That's not bad for a first attempt.

But with one of the biggest party weekends of the year

ahead of her, will she be able to stay off MCat?

18-year-old Arthur has only just arrived in Leeds to study film,

but he already prides himself on his knowledge of drugs.

Taking a drug is like changing a lens on a camera.

It changes the way you see the world,

it just gives you a different perspective.

Ecstasy would give the world a very rosy lens, you know,

it's a warm and fuzzy lens.

It is a bit like having a really nice cup of tea in the morning,

and maybe a spliff, and timesing that by about 50.

Um, MCat does not have that general feeling around, of wellbeing.

It gives it a kind of excitement, it makes you kind of almost on a mission

to do something, you know, you often find yourself on a mission

to go and you know, sing a song with your mate or something like that.

So, like, you just end up doing stupid shit all night, it's good fun.

But things like acid is... it's a powerful experience.

It's a tribal kind of shamanic experience,

which just completely breaks up your perception of the world

and completely changes the way you see things for 12 hours,

and then you'll never see things again the same.

Ketamine is fun.

It's not to be taken with anything else.

It kind of gives you a bit of a David Lynch lens. I suppose.

Um, a kind of a weird kind of strange world that you go into.

Not sure what's wrong, but something is definitely wrong.

But it's also extremely right.

As someone that's interested in science, the idea that a molecule

can change your whole perception of the world,

which is everything to you, it changes literally your universe,

is fascinating to me.

But not everyone in the city experiences these new drugs

in the same way.

Oliver is 26 and has been taking ketamine for the last two years.

I ain't taken none today though. None today.

Now he's come for help to the Leeds Club Drug Clinic,

the first specialist clinic of its kind outside London.

Oh yeah, aye, big, big step today. Definitely.

It's to get proper help and what I need,

see what they can do for me really. I'll do ought to get off drugs now.

This clinic was started in December 2011,

mainly for people who were having problems with ketamine, mephedrone,

GHB, legal highs and other drugs that are often associated with parties.

-Do you want to come through?

-Yeah.

These are kind of a new wave of drugs, the kind of dance culture

and ecstasy and things, I don't know, started in 1988 and increased,

but it never really led to people seeking treatment for drugs,

unless they ended up taking heroin or crack or something like that.

But these are party drugs that people are using at parties,

but they are leading to addiction problems

and physical and psychological health problems.

And obviously the main problem is ketamine, would you say?

Yeah, yeah, main problem, definitely ketamine, yeah.

OK. And how much would you do in one go?

I could do a whole gram in one line if I want.

-Right. And...

-But I'm having to do that though,

-like when I first started taking it, it were like little keys.

-Yeah.

Like that big, and then that'd get me off my face for ages.

But now just my tolerance has become so big,

-I'm having to do big lines like that to get me started.

-Yeah.

And then I can just top it up with a line like that then

or like if I just, I ain't got the money for it,

I'll just do a line and just keep on doing like that,

-or if I've got money I'll just go stupid.

-Yeah.

And then what are the negatives for it at the moment, would you say?

The downside is my bladder and I've got very big concerns

about my bladder now, just weeing and uncomfortability, and sleeping.

Yeah. What I suggest is you, over the next four weeks,

-just try and reduce it.

-Yeah, I'm going to.

Try and look at alternative activities and things like that.

-Yeah.

-And see how far you get with that,

and then in four weeks' time we'll see how you've got on.

OK then. All right, thank you very much.

Thank you for your help.

Ketamine has only been increasingly popular over the last ten years, snorting it.

It's been used recreationally since the 1970s,

but we're seeing more and more people snorting increasing amounts,

and a surprising side effect of that is bladder damage,

which was only first described in the medical literature in 2007.

This damage can be irreversible, often is irreversible.

We've had young people who've needed their bladder to be removed surgically.

What drugs are you using at the moment and how much?

Well, MCat and ketamine and weed.

Can vary, can vary really.

Through't week, it's not as much.

On a daily basis from morning, I might get up

and have a line of MCat, bring me up a bit,

and then I'll have a line of ket and brings me on a level

and just have a joint and that and just mongs me out a bit,

just chill out a bit more, and then I might get back on MCat,

bring me up a bit, just up and down, up and down all the time,

that's what it is.

I had a bit of MCat this morning.

A bit of ket afterwards.

-And we just had a joint before we come here, didn't we?

-Yeah.

It's just got that bad now, to the stage where it's like

my smell's going, my memory, my body,

got to start thinking about my health,

where do I want to be in six month?

Going to be in six foot under, you never know, do you know what I mean?

Just hopefully this place will actually do something for me.

But if Oliver is to give up ketamine,

he'll need the support of his family.

"It's just the weaning off, coming off it, Mam," he says.

"It's awful. You need it some days."

Stuff on your mind, you can't cope with the stress,

he says, "You get a bit just to forget about everything."

He'll be all right cos he's strong and he's got a strong family

with him as well, so he's got a lot of love.

Drugs - nobody should touch owt like that - it's not worth it.

Just drugs mess your head up and they mess't family's head up as well.

This is where we have fun now.

Kind of just slap little pictures on him.

Um, it's been really easy to do actually, as you can tell.

It's just complete random stuff.

That'd look pretty cool there cos that kind of fits round that bit.

Tony is 24 and lives in Leeds.

He's recently quit his job in a call centre to focus on partying

and his artwork, until his money runs out.

I love it - it's another piece of artwork that I do.

I spend a lot of time just sat at home doing stupid artwork

and luckily for me, I've got a lot of friends with a lot of spare skin.

If I do drugs I do 'em recreationally for a purpose, there's a reason behind it.

We're all going to do different drugs or we all do the same drug,

just to see what the kind of night it can make,

and that's kind of what we go for.

If it gets to a point where you wake up one day and you're like, "Mate, I need a spliff,"

or "I need to get a gram of ket, I ain't got any today,"

then you know you've got a problem and you're not doing it for the reason you should be,

you're doing it to get by. Not for the sake of doing it recreationally

like you're supposed to.

Tony chooses different drugs for different situations.

I absolutely love pills and ket,

and then MDMA is still MDMazing!

Not doing too much because obviously

when you get on it then you get smashed.

Tonight is the start of a four-day party session for Tony.

To kick it off, him and his housemates

are off to a big Halloween party.

The night's what you make of it

and there's no point sticking to the norm. I don't want to grow up

and go to some stupid dinner party with some stupid wife,

who I don't even know why I've married, do you know what I mean?

To sit at the dinner table having two glasses of posh wine

that tastes like arse.

Nah, I want to go out and if I'm completely honest,

I want to get bladdered, you know? I want to make a night of it,

and if I can do that quite a few times in the month then absolutely.

As part of her efforts to get her MCat habit under control,

Holly is off to her fortnightly meeting at the Leeds Club Drug Clinic.

I think it's just someone to talk to about it that's like,

instead of taking the mick out of me, which my friends do.

If I go in here, it's someone that actually takes it seriously.

And um, kind of gives you the downfall

and like the bad side to it and it kind of wakens you up, I suppose,

to what it's really about.

Mephedrone was banned in 2010, but started out as a legal high.

When mephedrone was legal, a lot of people tried it

who wouldn't probably have considered using cocaine,

and that kind of opened the world of snorting drugs to them.

Mephedrone led to a kind of new way of consuming drugs.

It's cheap and available - it's a lot cheaper than cocaine.

Younger people are using it

and we've got no idea what the long-term effects might be.

I've had a great week this week, past two weeks.

Smashing. So what's happened?

Um, well, it were my birthday and I've not touched a thing

-and I've not hardly drunk either.

-Brilliant.

Um, so I feel happy with myself today.

And so have you been having cravings or thoughts of using?

Yeah, my birthday. It got to, it was about four o'clock

-and I just remember starting to feel really tired.

-Yeah.

And I did start craving it, but I just thought,

"Well none of my friends are doing it and they're still jumping about,"

so then, literally, it were for about two minutes and that were it.

Yeah, cos that's an important point, it's who you're hanging around with.

Massively, because usually if ever I crave it, it's right in my face,

and cos I didn't go out with them people, didn't bother me whatsoever.

It sounds like things are going brilliantly at the moment.

How are you going to keep this up? Is it going to be difficult?

Do you know, I don't even think it'll be difficult.

You're doing everything right.

I feel a heck of a lot better, to be honest, I feel loads better.

I couldn't imagine feeling how I did when I first came in.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you. Cheers. I'll see you in two weeks.

-Cheers.

-All right. See ya.

-Bye.

It's strange, cos usually when I come out of there

and I feel quite disappointed in myself and I still feel rubbish,

but today I actually feel, for the first time in God knows how long, really good.

Thinking about it, if I can get through Saturday,

I know there's going to be a heck of a lot of drugs about,

and it's going to be pretty messy.

If I can get to Sunday and not touch a thing

then I know that I'll be fine, but it's just getting to Sunday.

Think about it, you're going to have a better night than just going to the pub now, aren't ya?

Oh, what the fuck, man!

Strike a pose!

Tony and his friends are heading out.

He's confident he knows what he's doing with drugs.

You've got to know where you're getting it from, you've got to know

your supplier, otherwise it doesn't make sense really.

You can't get something off someone

that you don't know what you're getting.

If you take a drug that you know,

and that you're using and you know your limits on it,

it's better because you can handle it more.

There's taxis in about 15, 20 minutes, just want to remind you.

You all ready?

Get intoxicated pretty soon as well, if you know what I mean.

MUSIC: "We Found Love" by Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris

Do you know what, I'm just going to cut it.

I'm just going to cut it, see what happens.

Back at her flat in Huddersfield, Holly is working on a dress.

She graduated with a degree in fashion two years ago.

When I first started designing t-shirts and they were going so well

and literally, like, everyone would just...

Even people I didn't know were getting in touch with me, asking,

and people abroad, I were getting phone calls from Ibiza

and Spain and just everywhere, asking me for these vests and t-shirts,

and it were the best feeling in the world,

knowing that you've designed and created something.

I couldn't have been happier, basically,

but over the summer, I got introduced to somebody,

who I thought was all right, and then I was attacked.

And basically from there, literally, my confidence got shredded.

Everything just went downhill.

I weren't interested in making money, didn't look forward to the future.

I just went backwards.

I wasn't turning up for work.

Like, everything just went, came to a standstill

and it was like I kind of hit a brick wall in a way.

After a few months, Holly ventured out to a bar with a friend.

And I felt like I weren't supposed to be there,

like I shouldn't be there and I just felt horrible all the time.

So she was like, "Ah, do you want to do a little bit of coke?"

I were thinking, "Oh, well, what's this all about?" kind of thing.

So I went and did it with her in the toilets and literally

that's the first time in I can't even remember,

a few months, that I'd actually felt normal, like on a level,

like a bit of a buzz at least,

and then that's when I first got addicted to drugs.

Mm.

Do you know what, I've done that absolutely perfect.

It just covers me bum.

In fact... That's the one.

Now that's a classic old-school Halloween banger.

James will be DJing at the Halloween party

that Tony and his friends are heading to.

He's seen the party drugs change over the past few years.

MUSIC: "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr

I've seen a lot more negatives with the burst of the party drugs

than what I have with the older drugs, well, not older drugs,

but your sort of MDMA and stuff like that, where you just get a bunch

of loved-up people who don't want to hurt anybody

and they're just happy as Larry,

just want to hug everybody and just genuinely be happy.

The influx of what's appeared over the past few years,

these horrible chemicals that nobody has a clue really what they do to you.

They just screw people up, basically, and I've seen it first hand.

I've seen people in absolute tangles from it.

And we've got people now and they're just going,

"Does that cost me a tenner and does it get me hammered?"

Yeah, so yeah, whack that up your nose. What is it?

"Oh, I don't, I've no idea, it just gets me hammered."

Well, that to me is just a ridiculous stance to have on things.

It's destroying the sort of social circles and the social boundaries

that people sort of had within this, within this sort of party scene,

as you could put it, and what it's doing is just escalating the problem

and making it a lot worse.

MUSIC: Brass band plays "Faith" by George Michael

Four months after his first visit to the clinic,

Oliver has stopped taking MCat and has cut down his ketamine use.

Setting off to work now.

Yeah, off into Leeds city centre, to go to Space nightclub.

I've been offered to do some flyering for a couple of hours.

Just got to keep myself busy, really.

Hopefully I might get a positive feedback

and get a better job.

First step. Aye. See how it goes.

Do you think there'll be any temptations out there?

No, cos...no. No. No.

No, I'm just going to do a couple of hours then come home and go to bed,

and then up in morning, fresh week, start looking for jobs.

All right, see you soon. See you later.

His mum knows it was working in clubs

that first drew Oliver into taking ketamine.

The club scene is rife with ket and when you've been on ket

and you're trying to get off it again and you're going to mix with people

that can offer you it, and will take it, get in that crowd again,

that's going to be't hard part for Oliver.

Nice actually, just walk, walk, walk in to town.

I'm frightened that he'll have a little bit of a bad ket one day

and sniff too much and just drop down dead,

and then I'll... I don't know what I'll do.

So, just wait and see tonight. I just hope he's strong.

I might go in club for a drink afterwards, see what it's like.

But just for one drink and then I'll come out.

But I'll wait up for him.

When he comes in, we'll have a little chat

and see what he's like and I'll be able to tell

if he's been on stuff or not, and let him get to bed then.

And I'll get to bed then and get some rest and peace.

MUSIC: "You've Got The Love" by Florence + The Machine

It's a nice clear night. Reckon it's going to be cold though, innit?

Looks it.

# You've got the love I need to see me through

# Sometimes it seems the going is just too rough

# And things go wrong no matter what I do

# Now and then it seems that life is just too much

# But you've got the love I need to see me through

# When food is gone you are my daily meal... #

Back in Huddersfield, determined to stay off MCat,

Holly is working out her game plan.

I'm off to a party and there's loads of people going.

I think every single one of them will be getting on it,

and everyone's on it, you just get like a proper good vibe

and then you want to be on that level,

so unless I go and meet 'em for a bit and then stay with Chantelle,

cos she'll look down her nose at me if I start doing ket and stuff,

and it's a horrible feeling,

so I think as long as I stay with girls I'll be fine.

# Time after time I think, "Oh Lord, what's the use?"

# Time after time I think, "It's just no good"

# Sooner or later in life, the things you love you lose

# But you've got the love I need to see me through. #

When's this taxi going to be here?

You going to be shooting?

The housemates are heading out to their Halloween party.

I'm a bit chilly, but it's all right.

It's going to be a frigging good night.

Taxi driver Taz has a unique window into the Leeds party scene.

They're always sat in the back, you can hear them talking about drugs,

you can hear them saying, "Oh, well, we took this drug today"

or "Let's go and get some drugs"

or "Let's go to a house party and order some drugs," and stuff like that.

You hear them all the time, especially on a night time,

like on a weekend, that's when you especially hear most,

most of this sort of stuff going on in the back of your taxis.

Yeah, taxi drivers, we talk to each other.

We'd love to take a movie or a film of photos of them

and show them the next day, this is how you were last night

when you were in the taxi, because that's how bad they'll be sometimes.

They don't even know where they live themselves.

They don't know their home addresses sometimes, that's how bad they are.

Tony and his friends arrive at the house party in Leeds' student area, Hyde Park.

Welcome to mayhem.

And James joins them, ready to play.

Waaagh! Get ready, we're going to fucking have it tonight. Ha!

Let's go! We're going to have it all night tonight

and we're just going to go wild.

Yes, motherfucker!

Feeling pretty jazzy, fizzle to be fair.

I've had quite a little bit of rum, I've had a little bit of a chill

with a few friends, I'm on the OJ now, cos I'm going to play

in about half an hour, 40 minutes, so let's do it! Let's go wild.

Let's go wild! Yeah!

But in a part of town where there's a party on every corner,

it's easy to end up in the wrong one.

We just walked into the wrong house party,

into somebody else's basement and we're like, "Fucking hellfire!"

This is it, 28, that's where we're looking at.

That's where we're at, we found it and we're on it.

Now we're at the right house party.

Two doors down.

-I thought something were up with that other party.

-It were shit!

MUSIC: "Wine and Chocolates" by Theophilus London

He's not on drugs, but if you look at his eyes,

it kind of looks like he is. Look how freaky them eyes are!

Holly's night is in full swing and after two weeks clean,

being around drugs again isn't bothering her.

How are you feeling at the moment?

All right. I'm happy on the wine.

No, to be honest, I feel all right.

Um, all my friends are literally on it,

but I'm just going to take it...

All our friends are inside, inside the pub right now.

But they don't want to get filmed.

Don't want to get filmed, they're embarrassed.

No doubt you're going to be tempted tonight?

No, I'm not even tempted, to be honest.

Like, literally, I've seen what effects it's got.

I'm happy just drinking.

Like, I've been out for a few hours now and I'm still on the wine,

so I'm just going to take it steady and see how it goes.

Getting to that time now everyone's pissed out of their heads and the drugs come out.

I haven't taken anything as yet.

I'm not saying I haven't taken drugs before...

I'm not saying I haven't!

MUSIC: "Gopher Mambo" by Yma Sumac

For some people, the night is taking an expected turn.

Aaron! Aaron?

-Aaron?

-Mm?

How are you feeling, bud? Aaron, open your eyes, please.

Open your eyes.

-Can you remember where you are? Aaron?

-Mm?

Can you remember where you are? Can you remember where you are?

This gentleman, who has been drinking,

he says he may have been spiked.

Seems to generalise, he knows where he is now,

but when he first came in he wasn't sure.

Can you listen to me? Wake up.

Do you know where you are? Where are you?

You're in hospital.

We see a lot of young patients taking what they think are legal highs

or other recreational drugs that are supposed to be safe

or supposed to be OK and people don't perceive as a social problem,

but for us, that's the bulk of our work when it comes to drugs.

They're the ones who tend to come in and are quite inebriated,

maybe quite aggressive, who are all over the place

maybe with decreased GCS or loss of consciousness.

People think it's the alcohol but a lot more

it's actually these newer drugs people are taking as well.

This just gets a wee bit tight.

I thought I was actually going to die.

Oh, I was scared as hell. I was thinking, "Where the hell am I?"

Someone must have literally just like put a pill or whatever he had

into my bottle, which completely destroyed me.

The fact is I couldn't even control myself.

I couldn't walk, I couldn't do nothing.

That's just not like me, after two bottles of wine?

A doctor will be with you soon.

The wine was simply just to do me through the house party

and the brandy was for when I get inside the club,

and then obviously I didn't get to the brandy,

but that's life, innit.

But, on the bright side of it, I saved £7 entry.

I didn't have to pay to get in, obviously I didn't go Oceana,

so I saved £7, didn't I?

But that's the only bright side I can look at it really, so...

Having found the right house party,

Tony and his friends hit the dance floor.

You get a feeling, I usually get it in like my stomach

when I'm starting to come up and you can feel it and it's,

you get this kind of excitement behind ya.

You just get a little buzz off that for a bit.

But I like MDMA and ketamine together.

Get into cocktails and combinations because you see one drug

as a whole new dimension, and you know, you can travel through 'em

and I know it sounds pretty crazy saying you're a time traveller

or you're a space traveller, but that's kind of how I feel about it.

You do feel like you are in a different dimension,

like when you've hit it that hard.

The best thing is when you look round,

you've got your mates and everyone's feeling as good as you are,

you're kind of united in that feeling, in that moment

and you can't really get that anywhere else.

You're not just going to find that in your local pub.

20 minutes later you can be even more up and you don't realise

how high these levels can get, like you can actually get to a point

where you will say to people

"It must be like I'm in heaven or something. How can I feel this good right now?"

Holly's moved on to a club.

She's still not taken any MCat, but the drinks are flowing.

I suppose once I start drinking it's like your body knows

when you start drinking, you're going to start sniffing.

Even before you start it, your body kind of feels like you've already done it.

And then you do end up craving it.

If I don't drink, it's a lot easier to stop,

but obviously when your friends are drinking,

that's how everybody socialises nowadays,

so there's triggers everywhere.

MUSIC: "Bad Girls" by M.I.A.

I've been a doorman, on and off for 23 years.

Over 23 years now. Things have got better in some aspects,

some have got worse in aspects.

The unpredictability of the chemical cocktails

people are ramming down their necks or up their noses

certainly adds a fresh challenge to what we're used to.

Um, the changing licensing laws, the changing taste of music,

changing culture, all of these, you know.

Every day, you can't predict, every day is different.

You know, certainly we had massive problems 20 years ago with drugs.

We still do, it's just they're different problems and different drugs.

Only two weeks ago, we had two lads take a load of ketamine

and literally drop, one there, one there - that tied up two ambulances

for over an hour and Lord knows at the A&E.

You know, that's an unacceptable waste of resources

for having a good time out, you know.

There are better ways to do it than that.

Some of these new drugs really are taking it to the edge of what's acceptable behaviour in cities,

and for some people, taking them right over that edge and into A&E,

into prison cells, and in some cases into the mortuary.

MUSIC: "Flutes" by Hot Chip

I'm in the emergency x-ray department, mate.

Yeah, the emergency x-ray department of Leeds General Infirmary, mate.

Yeah, you can't miss me, mate - my ankle's bigger than the moon.

Jack has ended up in A&E with a broken ankle.

Growing up in Leeds,

it's not the first time he's seen a night out end in tears.

I think what it is with Leeds is, my friends, a lot of 'em

are sort of stuck in like, you know, like a bit of a cycle

and it's like, well, they know there's a lot more out there

to the world, but it's just like an easily attainable goal, to go out

and get fucked on the weekend and have a few dramas, cos in Leeds,

you know what I mean, a lot of people love dramas,

people love to have something to talk about and have a chat about

the week after, before they do it all again.

You're not finding a wheelchair to have sex in.

I'll tell you know that mephedrone is the thing that's sort of defined,

this is what I'm on about - mephedrone is the Devil's dandruff,

I call it, it's evil, man.

I mean, Leeds never really got out of the MCat stage.

There are still a lot of people who are bad on that and staying up

for four or five days, getting sleep deprivation,

thinking all their mates are talking about 'em.

it's classic paranoia and stuff on that.

I think I'm past it, I really do.

I'm 21 in a few weeks and I'm going to have a broken ankle for my 21st

cos of my antics, so....

Back at the house party,

DJ James has become an expert at spotting party drug casualties.

From a DJ booth, you can definitely pick out the people

who are on, say, for example, the ketamine, because they can't stand,

their eyes are in the back of their head,

they don't know what they're doing, where they are.

We have a laugh sometimes when we see 'em,

"Here comes the bloody kethead!"

It's ugh, ugh, like a zombie coming through the crowd,

while everyone's jumping around and having a good time.

Possibly the people tripping their head off on acid

on the occasional times, they also stick out as well,

when they're trying to examine the floral pattern on the curtain

for like three and a half hours,

which also makes like very good viewing pleasure from the DJ booth.

"Ooh, ooh, ooh!" Examining the curtain.

The MDMA does have its very tell-tale signs.

You can always see like Battlejaw Galactica, as we like to call it.

It's some geezer chewing his head off, coming in through the door,

it's like "Yeah, you've had far too many biscuits."

The big thing that has pretty much infected itself into everything,

like a bad virus, is the MCat, it's absolutely everywhere.

You can normally tell because of the smell of them,

because they smell like an old fish tank or some horrible fish food

or some nasty industrial chemical, like drain cleaner.

So that's normally a tell-tale sign.

Starting to get a bit mental.

It's kind of what we wanted.

Mate, I saw these boobs in there,

I swear to god they were incredible and I want to go and get 'em.

That's what I'm feeling like right now.

We should go inside and find some boobies.

We'll enjoy the rest of our night. Woo!

MUSIC: "Diamonds" by Rihanna

As the night progresses, Holly says she's staying off MCat.

When you take something like everything's so on board,

you can see everything. Everything's so like, it's in HD,

your life goes in HD all of a sudden, but it's like a lot busier.

Like, you could be the only person in a club, but it'd seem like

it were packed and you'd have the time of your life.

When you're drunk, like, everything's a bit more slowed down,

and I don't like that. I like being on the ball

and that's the only reason why I like getting on it.

If someone offered me a key now, I think I'd reject it.

It'd be like...80-20% that I would take it.

The thing is when you do a little bit, you're not too bad,

but I can't just do a little bit, like I'd be on it for days after,

so I know not to touch that first bit.

As long as I can get past that, I'm all right.

Witnesses query that he's saying that he's had GHB.

-Been through his...

-Got a bottle down his...

-He's got what?

-A bottle down his trousers.

-What sort of bottle?

-Water or GHB, I don't know.

Right, shall we get rid of that?

Yeah, that's not sugar-free Jet Pop, is it?

GHB is a liquid high, popular on the party scene,

but one drop too much can send you over the edge.

Talk to us.

Hold his hands. Can you hold his arms?

Hello, mate. Hello!

Hiya, mate. Hello. OK mate, hello!

What's your name, mate?

The reason GHB is so dangerous

is because it depresses the central nervous system.

If you take it with another substance that depresses

the central nervous system, such as alcohol,

it can cause such deep unconsciousness that people can go into coma and respiratory arrest.

By that, I mean they stop breathing. I've seen people die from taking GHB.

Whoa, whoa, you're coming off this trolley, big fella.

Come on, matey. On your side.

Good lad. Too far for you to fall.

OK. All right.

Hey, no biting. That's not in the rules.

-Ooh.

-He's trying to bite now.

-Right, stop! Stop biting!

Listen, you're in hospital, you're in hospital.

You're in hospital.

As he's come round and his conscious level's come up,

he's been able to tell us that it's GHB

and it's that he's a habitual user of GHB, MCat and cocaine.

So he's come round now, his GCS is currently 15,

so he knows where he is, he knows what he's done

and he says that, he kept repeating, "Oh, I've done it again, haven't I? I'm always doing this"

So he's obviously, you know, well versed to doing this.

It's 6am and Holly's night on the town is coming to an end.

So how has your night been, Holly?

Um, yeah, it's been all right.

Basically we've been to the Dawn Chorus, which is his night.

Um, just been drinking and now I'm knackered and I want to go to bed.

I'm so tired.

Might agree with that, actually.

You haven't taken anything?

Not tonight, no.

Are you pleased with yourself?

No, I'm just really tired. I will be in the morning,

but now I'm just so tired.

I were like falling asleep in there, to be honest.

-Bedtime now, yeah?

-Yeah.

-OK, cool.

Come on then.

After a weekend of partying, Tony's not quite ready to call it a night.

Er, yeah, I'm not really sure what time it is, but it's er,

it's tomorrow now, and I've been at a lot of parties.

Yeah, it's been all right, it's been pretty cool,

obviously I'm still quite wide awake, it's been an all right night.

Mainly it was MCat, Like I say, not my preference,

not really what I go for, but I was pretty skint tonight,

I didn't want to spend any money and it got sorted out for me really,

so I was just like "Yeah, OK, I'll have a bit."

I guess you wouldn't really say no - that'd only be rude, right?

I'm not really thinking of a deadline or aiming for anything.

If you're not ready to crash out,

there's no point trying to crash out,

because you're only going to lay in your bed, wide eyed,

thinking of like irrational things and you know,

they've got nothing to do with what you've been doing,

why would you lay there thinking about 'em, purely because obviously

you're a bit fucked and you're kind of awake,

so you're going to be doing something.

I might think of something that puts me on a downer, I don't really want that.

Tony's on a mission to cause some mischief.

Hiya, mate, look who it is! How are you doing?

He's not a morning person at all.

Er, usually his morning begins at like two,

half two in the afternoon, so for us to be at 8:54, this is a real

reality shock for him, he probably don't know this time exists.

Back to sleep.

How's it going, guys? Morning.

My new alarm's been going off for ages - you've missed it.

Ah, riots been going everywhere and crazy stuff...

Not really, I just felt the need to come and wake you up,

as I've woke everyone else up.

What did you do? Did you have fun?

Just stayed in, really.

Cool, well anyway, have a good night.

My plan is obviously I've come in, I've annoyed everyone,

that was pretty fun, but now it's important to go out,

and obviously getting my priorities straight and do what I need to do,

which obviously is go and get high.

And this is me off, I'll see you soon, guys.

The weekend is over. It's Monday morning and back to reality.

Holly is due to work with her dad today,

but she hasn't been seen for three days.

She went off on Friday teatime, after we came home from work.

I didn't hear from her on Saturday and I always think that's a sign.

I didn't hear from her yesterday. I sent her a few text messages,

asking if she was coming to work today,

but no response on neither of her phones.

-Knock knock.

-It's open. Hello! Oh, hiya.

-Hiya. Rosie!

-You don't know where Holly is, do you?

-No, I've no idea.

I've tried texting her a few times, but to no avail.

-I take it she's not at home.

-No.

-No, she's not?

-Not to worry.

Well, I am worried, but she will turn up when she's...?

-Yeah.

-OK.

-Right.

All right, I'll leave him with you, if that's all right.

I think she'll be crashed out somewhere,

recovering from whatever it was...

I'm not even going to say that she's taken, because I'm hoping

just like hell that she hasn't,

I'm just hoping that she's just crashed out

and can't be arsed, to be honest, which is the lesser of two evils.

Yeah, I'd rather she were crashed out and couldn't be arsed,

rather than over hung or on a comedown.

Looks like another day on my own.

-Had your cig, have ya?

-Yeah. I'm still tired, me.

-You're still tired?

-Yeah.

Oliver got back from his first night at his new job

and there's good news for his mum.

-Said they were going to stay, didn't they?

-Mm.

He said, "I come home. I were cold, so I come home."

So I'm chuffed to bits.

Did you have a good night then, yeah?

Yeah, were all right. Yeah, work's work at end of day.

-Yeah, I know.

-Just keep myself busy.

I heard him come in and thought I'll let him get settled in't bedroom

and then I'll go knock on't door and creep in, and he let me

and he were right as rain.

He said "I'm freezing, Mam," but he were all right.

I said "Good, so right, I'm off to bed now," so I slept well.

So I'm chuffed today with him. Over the moon.

Be confident and positive. You don't need shit like that.

Just keep off it. And you're not a kid, are ya, love?

-26.

-No, started growing up.

-Yeah.

It means that I know they can go out now and say no

and come back home, cos he could have stayed last night

cos he saw quite a few of his old friends and a girl that he used

to like that he saw. She said "Are you stopping?"

He said, "No, I'm going home," and he come home.

So it means that he can actually go down there,

do a bit of work and come home.

So fingers crossed, might get there eventually.

-Just keep myself busy, out.

-Yeah.

Any point of work whatsoever, just take it,

take your mind off things, keep my mind occupied.

That's what I've been doing really. Still a bit tired, to be honest.

I've not long been up.

Did you take anything last night?

No. No, not last night, no.

Ah, what?!

Get in! What the fuck, Dean?

It's Monday, my week's started

and I haven't really got too much responsibilities,

I ain't got too much to be worried about.

I'm not going to disappoint myself in any kind of way

cos there's not too much high expectations, which is cool.

I don't think about my future too much cos I think

if you're concentrating on the future, you're missing so much

that is in the present right now, you know, um, but I do like

to have a responsibility behind me as well,

and I guess I do consider the future is a factor of what could happen.

There's going to be that day where I need to turn around

and start changing what I'm doing, but the way I see it is,

why should I sit here constantly thinking about that day

and you know, putting a negative spin on what I'm doing now?

Why can't I do what I'm doing now, have an amazing positive spin on it,

and then when that day comes around just be like "OK, let's do that.

"I'll go for it, cool, man."

I don't know what happened there.

It's Monday night and Holly's only just arriving home.

After a successful two weeks,

being around MCat this weekend proved too much.

Right, it's a bit of a mess.

When was the last time you were home?

On, it was Saturday, was it Friday? Saturday. Yeah.

Which, it's just so easy to get hold of,

but it just, it does my head in, like.

I only got on it cos I went to the toilet

and this lass is like "Come in here with me,"

cos there were a bit of a queue, and then she just pulled out a bag,

she's like, "Here you are," and then it were just in my face straightaway.

I didn't even ask for it and cos it's like everywhere you go,

that's why it's so hard to stop it.

It's only two weeks, but it was such a struggle

just to keep off it for that two weeks,

and then you just think, "What's the point?"

You just feel like giving up.

But when you get pulled back in,

that's like another month of your life just gone,

just by like jumping off, like falling off the bandwagon,

and if it keeps happening, it's like a year of your life gone.

It's been like...

I just feel like if it don't get sorted soon,

I'm soon going to be like 30 or 40

and I'm going to be exactly in the same boat as I am now,

and I had so many dreams and stuff before I started taking it.

It's all just like...disappearing.

Just going to have to hack it out.

And drink lots of orange juice,

that's supposed to help me and make you feel better.

And then just go from there.

Since filming, Oliver has had his first clean drug test in two years.

Tony has gone on a detox and is looking for a job.

And Holly has now gone eight weeks without taking any MCat

and has relaunched her fashion business.

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