WHAT will they think of us in the future, injecting ourselves with mind-controlling drugs to escape reality? I can understand, in a war zone, with killing all around, the need to escape reality but Britain is not a war zone.

Admittedly it is depressing at times but life is all about taking the rough with the smooth. It's certainly rough in Calderdale.

In 1962 the Samaritans opened a new centre in Halifax because this area had one of the highest rates of suicides in the country and I think I am right in saying that, 38 years later, the year 2000, Calderdale still has one of the highest suicide rates in the country.

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