Day 5/8 - 26Dec - Spice Café
We have discovered that a café down the road is selling the synthetic drug known as Spice - link - and we have been calling out five ambulances a day to deal with its side effects, often a comatose guest on the floor where they fall randomly and then lie unconconscious, cadaverlike. Whilst this is The Gate that specialises in the homeless with significant addictions, and we are familiar and perhaps blasé towards alcohol addiction, it is distressing for volunteers to see comatose guests lying on the floor somewhere indoors or tarmac outside in the cold. The NHS ambulance teams are being very patient with us after regular callouts but understand our mission that makes this London Academy school a repeating 999 all of a sudden, these ambulance teams are of course inspirational and it is humbling to see them in action whatever the circumstances. Epilesy has been a recurring theme too with some guests having tonic-clonic seizures, previously known as a "grand mal"...