The High Society: Drugs and the Irish Middle Class

The High Society subverts these usual images and stereotypes by presenting a wide and varied group of professional people who are drug abusers and recovering addicts. Their stories challenge our glib and mistaken assumptions. Some may anger and horrify you. These are people whom we respect and with whom we all come in contact - among them our law makers and law enforcers, politicians and accountants, doctors and surgeons, our priests and our nuns. The 'professional' drug abuser - of which there are very, very many - forces us to re-examine our attitudes towards, and our awareness of, the drugs and the addicted around us. The High Society lifts the lid on the reality of substance abuse in contemporary, affluent, professional Ireland. It reveals our unreported drug problem for the first time.