About this episode
The episode explores the impact of Spice in British prisons through the story of Joe and his struggles with addiction and debt.
Highly-addictive, relatively cheap and easy to smuggle, Spice is running rampage through Britain’s prisons. And Spice is the reason Amy finds Joe zombie-like in his cell, eyes rolled back in his head. The reason, he’s in debt with other prisoners. The reason he’s asking her to smuggle something in for him. Again. Credits Host: Amber Haque Producer: Becca Bryers Sound design: Andy Fell Executive producer: Joe Kent A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live Details of information and support with addiction is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline
People in this episode
Host: Amber Haque
Topics covered
- addiction
- prisons
- Spice
- debt
- drug smuggling
- true crime
Keywords
- Spice
- addiction
- prisons
- drug smuggling
- debt
- true crime
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Studios, BBC Sounds
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