I did a questionaire with a police officer from Carterton police station, the questions i asked were basically what procedures the police take too drug dealing and drug possesion.
Questionaire
-What percations do you take against someone in possesion of illeagal narcotics?
If someone was found with a small amount of drugs a caution can only be given if you have admitted the offence. You will not be charged but you will have a police record, just like a criminal record, which is kept on computer and will be available to any policeman, even in the street.
If someone was found with a large possesion of drugs and we are suspicious that they are dealing drugs then we can arrest them and they can be prosecuted.
-What can happen if you are found with drugs again after a caution?
You can be prosecuted and have to go to court and the time where you got a caution before hand can be mentioned in court, although the court will not punish you for the offence it relates to.
The average sentence for possesion of drugs is 3 to 7 years and the average sentence for dealing drugs is 14 years.
-How often do you search people for drugs?
The main way we find people with drugs is when they are entoxicated on the drugs or if they are on the street causing other sorts of trouble and we can find if they've already had a caution or criminal record for drugs and therefore we can search them and like i said before if they have drugs again then they can be arrested and prosecuted.
End of questionaire
The questionaire will give me a genral outline of what can happen to the drug addict charecter in my screenplay if he was caught by the police with drugs therefore it will seem alot more realistic as i got actual facts on what can happen.
Drugs research
I next wanted too find out what a drug addict could be realisticly addicted too and could realisticly afford as in my final idea the drug addict is homeless with no money therefore i went on the website http://www.talktofrank.com/ as it is the most knowledgable and reliable site on drugs research and it always gives the truth, here is some research from the website.
There is alot of different drugs that a highly addictive but the most addictive ones are Crack, Cocaine and Heroin.
Cocaine is a very addictive drug which is snorted through the nose too cause a "Buzz" which is a high that will make you very active but it will only last 30 minutes to 1 hour after taking one line therefore you will have too buy alot of it and it cost £40 GBP for 1 gram which can get a varied amount of lines out of it depending on how big or small you make the lines but this drug is very addictive and a gram is £40 and you have too keep taking it too feel intoxicated therefore a homeless person could never realisticly afford it and it is nick named the "rich people" drug.
Crack is the same as cocaine but transformed in a way that makes the high more intense and last longer but instead of being snorted, it's smoked which makes it alot more instantly addictive. It cost the same as cocaine £40 GBP a gram but it is alot more realisticly affordable for a homeless person because the majority of people that are homeless either have an alcohol, crack or heroin problem and they still somehow get the money for their narcotics by begging, stealing and prostitution.
The reason crack is more realisticly addictive is because a user can get quite a few hits off a a gram and just one hit can last for 3-6 hours and its alot more intense, making it extremely addictive.
The most addictive and affordable drug is heroin which can be injected and smoked, with heroin you can get instantly hooked on it and when people are properly addicted to it, they get to the point where they can get very ill and if they dont take the drug, its known as "Dope sickness" and people start taking it just too feel normal again.
Injecting heroin and sharing injecting equipment can be very risky, as it runs the risk of the injector catching or spreading a virus, such as HIV or hepatitis C. There is also the risk that veins may be damaged and that an abscess or blood clot may develop this drug is most realisticly addictive because you only need £10 too buy some and its the most addictive drug in the world too this date
After researching on the FRANK website i have acctually managed too develop my idea slightly as in my final idea its about a drug addict that has HIV, well now after researching on FRANK i have concluded that this drug addict could of got infected with the HIV virus by sharing a needle too inject heroin when he first started getting hooked on the drug.
CONSPIRACY
I am going to research some conspiracy theories and give information about them.
Nine-Eleven Conspiracy
I am going too start of with the most famous conspiracy of September 11th when terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into the world trade centre.
The basic conspiracy theory behind this is that the american goverment wanted to have a war with iraq because iraq had a big supply of oil but obviously the american goverment couldnt just start a war for nothing so they purposely attached bombs too the world trade center and reported on the news that it was terrorists that hijacked the planes and crashed them into the world trade centre, there are some facts that prove that this theory could be true such as; the jet fuel from the hijacked plane dont heat up enough too melt through steel but the bombs that were supposedly attached could melt the steel causing the building too collapse.
Also alot of people reported that when the plane crashed into the building a big bang sound went of as if a bomb went off. Therefore if all of america knew that the world trade centre was destroyed by terrorists then they would want all of america to go too war and that is what the american goverment wanted so they can gather more oil but there is also alot of things that go against these theories, for example the passengers of the hijacked planes where linked too alkaida and that the terrorist was wearing a bomb when he flew into the building so it designated as he flew into it.
Cancer Cure Conspiracy
A recent conspiracy is that there was supposedly a cure for breast, lung and brain cancer discovered, the drug is called DCA which is used to treat rare metabolism diseases but it was discovered in canada that it kills cancer cells as tested on a test tube and a lab rat and, they were both injected with the human cancer virus and after the use of DCA all the cancer cells were killed with no harmful side affects.
The conspiracy part to this story is that the company in Canada that discovered that DCA cures cancer wont allow the public to have it as there is no money to be made from it and it has'nt properly been tested yet and insurance companies cant give funding towards it as there are some legal conditions that dont allow them too.
This is a good source of research for me as my final screenplay plan is about someone finding a cure too HIV and with this conspiracy theory in mind i could think of some ideas and reasons of why the goverment might not want the drug to go out too the public.
Charity
I am going to research two different charity's, one of them is a HIV charity and one of them is a Drug addict charity.
I just wanted to do abit of research on these two charity's too see how they are treated and i thought it could help towards developing my idea.
HIV Charity - UNICEF
The UNICEF is a charity that mainly collects funding for children around the world that have difficult lives and one of their main helps are towards people with HIV, and there funding doesnt only go towards children, it also goes towards adults and familys who are suffering from the HIV virus.
They say on the website that they want to raise awareness so people know what these people are going through aswell as raising money to help fund these people.
It says on the website that people with HIV can still have a rich fufilling life if we help therefore from that research i know that people with the HIV virus are very fragile and vulnerable therefore when the man in my final idea is on the run from the goverment i could maybe include him getting weaker and weaker the more he runs and hides from the goverment as the HIV virus that he caught is withelding his maximum strength and potential.
Drug Addiction Charity - Project Prevention
This charity has alot of information that is useful towards my research, it explains how people can donate to this charity to help drug addicts overcome their problems and one of the main things they put their money towards is giving the drug addicts their drugs in smaller doses in order to slowly get them off the drug which is a very popular form of treatment for drug addicts.
This information can be used again too develop my idea, i could make it out that the drug addict has no money left and he is even using these charitys to get his drugs and then not even quitting and just using the money for the drugs.
Researching both of these charitys was a good attribute towards my final idea as they are both key elements that my main charecter is involved with in my final idea.
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