The Geriatric Ravers Still Smashing Drugs: Gravers | High Society

It’s commonly accepted that your 20s is the time to get completely off your nut before calming down and respecting yourself. But increasingly, it seems that British people have a different idea.

More than 3.7 million over-45s go raving once a week in the UK, and there has been a 518 per cent increase in over-60s being treated for cocaine abuse over the last decade.

These older ravers face worrying health risks that younger ravers don’t – the drugs are stronger, and their hearts aren’t. Will physiology prove to be the ultimate party pooper, or have these pioneers unlocked the key to eternal youth?
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The War on Drugs has been won by drugs. They’re everywhere. Many of them are new, and they’re all more potent. Society is altering chemicals, and chemicals are altering society back, creating new drug scenes - some funny, some bizarre, some terrifying.

Drugs on TV usually mean criminals getting busted or addicts in recovery. But this series is about the cultures and people that have grown around the substances.

High Society will show you how drugs are shaping our world.

00:00 Intro
01:58 “Rave to the Bloody Grave”
06:16 On the Sesh Since 11 Years Old
11:40 An Icon of the Party Scene
16:11 This is Your Sesh Life
20:56 When Does the Rave End?

Watch more from this series:

The Truth About Ecstasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMETFXFE24

The Rise and Rise of Psychedelics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lld8KpTW8RA

The Most Expensive Rehab in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J3nVC0GoVg

The Viagra Epidemic Among Young Men And Its Dangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0IdDh7iqBQ

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