![]() Police and Customs seizures of diazepam have rocketed from 300,000 pills in the three years to June 2006 to two million in the two years since, DrugScope said. ![]() Many of the smugglers are holidaymakers returning from France, Spain and Portugal. But the illegal drugs are being brought in from other European countries where it is readily available. It is still prescribed in far smaller numbers for anxiety disorders, alcohol In Valium’s heyday in the 1960s and 70s, it was prescribed in vast quantities by GPs. Now young people and drug addicts are taking it illegally alongside alcohol to ease withdrawal from other drugs.ĭrugScope, which said usage was rising in 15 out of 20 towns it surveyed, added it may also be used as a cheap alternative to heroin.ĭiazepam, nicknamed ‘blues’ or ‘vallies’, is available for as little as £1 a pill. ![]() A tranquiliser once known as ‘mother’s little helper’ is experiencing a new surge in use, according to a drug information charity.ĭrugScope said diazepam, which is better known under its defunct brand name Valium, was previously known for ‘ anaesthetising a generation of British housewives’ in the 1960s and 70s. ![]()
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