Comments

This work was published in Moments in Probation compiled by Paul Senior and published by Shaw and Sons, Kent in 2008. Details of the book can be found at http://www.shaws.co.uk/books/

Abstract

A personal reflection of working as a probation officer in Bootle, Merseyside in 1983 when the area was one of the first in the UK to be hit with a new wave of drug misuse and every day young people could be seen buying and selling heroin on the streets of Bootle.

Disciplines

Substance Abuse and Addiction

Recommended Citation

Buchanan, J. (2008). When heroin hit the streets of Bootle. In P. Senior (Ed), Moments in Probation. Kent, Shaws and Sons.