Joe Cassidy stars in The Junkie Miracles as ANDY
Joe Cassidy stars in the play production of The Junkie Miracles as Andy
The Junkie Miracles
Written By Des Dillon
Produced by Stuart Falconer
The Junkie Miracles’ tells the stories of four drug addicts on the day they decided to get help. It tells the stories of four recovering addicts, the abyss in which they find themselves, and the experiences that finally shook them hard enough to get themselves into recovery. Des asked these people, to tell the worst day of their lives, the day they hit rock bottom and made them want to recover. So, these are four stories of people hitting that rock bottom, and eventually coming back out of that in some way or another. They aren’t all necessarily happy endings either.
The Junkie Miracles performers represent a large, but largely hidden, proportion of Scottish society whose voices have been stifled because of the stigmatic predicament in which they find themselves.
Scotland’s drug problem remains the worst in Europe with an estimated 60,000 people blighted by addiction – and an unknown number of regular users.
The latest statistics from Public Health Scotland (June 2025) say that Scots are drinking 50per cent above the safe limits, with those in more deprived areas six times more likely to be hospitalised or die from alcohol related causes compared to those in less deprived communities.
Thursday 24th September ’25 – Beacon Arts – Greenock | Friday 25th September ’25 – Websters Memori Arbroath | Saturday 26th September ’25 – Denny Civic Dumbarton
https://www.datathistle.com/event/2650577-the-junkie-miracles/
