Pete Doherty is going around telling everyone that he's through with drugs. Unfortunately for Pete we live in a world of cell phone cameras - and someone has used theirs to capture footage proving that Pete is still doing heroin.
The video, proudly presented by Britain's Sun tabloid, shows Pete cooking up and shooting while kneeling on a floor. Distinctive tattoos prove the identity of the somewhat blurry figure (who looks like Pete anyway). The time-frame is established by the shirt Pete has on - the same shirt he was photographed wearing when arriving back at Heathrow airport from last week's MTV Europe Awards. A "source close to Pete" further rats him out:
It’s not the first time he’s injected since he was supposed to have gone clean.He may have got clean through rehab, but as soon as the temptation is put in front of him, he cannot help himself. It’s so sad to see. He’s been given so many chances and so many fresh starts and he just throws them all away.
It’s not fair on those who have tried to help. It makes a mockery of the legal system.
Anyone else would have been sent to jail by now.
Actually, anyone else would be dead by now - but not Pete, who could probably shoot pure plutonium into his arm and not even feel sick.
It would be easy to jump on the "Pete Doherty is a danger to himself and should be locked up" bandwagon right now, but I'm not going to. People like Pete, who clearly hate themselves and can't deal with the day-to-day realities of life, should just be allowed to kill themselves in peace if they want to. Instead of scolding junkies endlessly, we should give them nice, clean, safe places to go, and provide them all the drugs they want, and then box them up when they die and bury them and be done with them. Save our compassion for the cancer babies and dogs given away as gifts by Ellen Degeneres.
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