The Political History of Smack and Crack review " an unsparing portrait of addiction
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghA desperate love story is set against a broader picture of government hostility in Ed Edwards' gritty two-handerAccording to this urgent two-hander, the name they had for heroin in Strangeways prison was "Margaret Thatcher's brown". If true, it's an astute example of drug-related slang. As Ed Edwards's play explains, the heroin epidemic of the early 80s was not an accident driven by …