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The Political History of Smack and Crack review " an unsparing portrait of addiction by Mark Fisher

Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghA desperate love story is set against a broader picture of government hostility in Ed Edwards' gritty two-handerAccording to this urgent two-hander, the name they had for heroin in Strangeways prison was "Margaret Thatcher's brown". If true, it's an astute example of drug-related slang. As Ed Edwards's play explains, the heroin epidemic of the early 80s was not an accident driven by …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM on August 12, 2018

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