Don’t blame an increase in drug scares among older people on the 1960s | Tom Chivers
More over-45s are arriving at hospital with drug-related mental health issues, but there’s a myriad of reasons why
by Tom Chivers
Dec 04, 2018
3 minutes
If you can remember the 60s, you weren’t really there, and all that. The baby boomer generation – that of Woodstock and the Isle of Wight festival and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the generation inspired by On The Road and Naked Lunch – was always famous for its liberal attitude to drug-taking, among many other things.
Now, it seems, that lifestyle may have caught up with them. According to, there has been an 85% increase in hospital admissions for “drug-related mental and behavioural disorders” among the over-45s in the last 10 years.
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