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Growin’ Up

In 1969 when I was 15 or so I cashed my scipt in every day at Boots 24hr pharmacy in Piccadilly Circus for the then legal Diamorphine Sulphate... saw Burroughs in the 3am queue once and exchanged unpleasantries... I had no idea who he was... just some old yank with ideas above his station... months later I was “Alex the droog” getting ECT in the Government “experimental” psychiatric Borstal at Feltham with all the other runaway kids with mental health issues from growing up in a home of psycotic “domestic violence”....the staff were brutal ex-army thugs... the drugs were untested on the public,,,,all records are “lost” according to the Home Office but this entry in Hansard remains to shame them... It was scary shit and I may be the last survivor of something rather sinister?.....

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1973/feb/21/borstal-institution-feltham?fbclid=IwAR1LGcN8C4NWNqQtxn5tfYfcpbH5DIKMXYFT7Xekl-tlPd2n6m6o-9zmPGY

................to be continued

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