Trainspotting question (minor spoilers)

Slightly off topic and unhelpful but did anybody else think that it was obvious that Danny Boyle didn't have a clue about drugs when he made Trainspotting?

I haven't read the book, so if the film is accurate then maybe Irvine Welsh knows fuck all about drugs, too.

Kakunn...

Rents went to Mikey Forrester while he was trying to come off the junk. Forrester gave him the suppositories because they were a slow release and were supposed to have been better for helping someone come off heroin. At least that was part of it...he was also kind of a dick...and not a very good dealer. Those could have had something to do with it also.

Mr. Martin...I didn't get that impression. I mean...I didn't get the impression that he was particularly knowlegable either though. I wasn't a fan of the scene where Rents was in his room trying to quit heroin and started seeing all the shit though...and while the part where he went completely into the toilet was kind of amusing, I wasn't a big fan of that either...I felt like it made a joke out of something that was, in the book, stomach-turningly disgusting -- which is the way it should have been in my opinion. That said, Irvine Welsh sure as fuck knows drugs. I've read all his novels and you would think he was a junkie himself. I know he was into ecstacy...though I don't know if he ever did heroin or coke or anything else. But he definitely comes off as knowlegable...very, very knowlegable.

I thought all he had was were the suppositories.

I enjoyed Trainspotting, but Irvine should write about something new. We get it, Leith is a shithole. Drugs are bad. Thatcher was a cunt. Growing up without money is hard. Everyone get's into fights. Everyone has lost fights. We're all scared of dying. We all shit ourselves when we're in with a crowd we really don't like. We all hate our jobs. No-one gets paid enough, and too much of what they get paid is stolen in taxes. And yes, the Scottish are a funny bunch of people. But I'm sure the Bulgarians are too. And the South African. And the Canadians. Can you not tell us about them, some-time? You've got a wicked sense of humour, but go somewhere else with it, for the sake of everyone who enjoys your stuff.

Alternatively, carry on writing what you want. You're loaded anyway, it's not as if any of these monkeys are going to stop buying your books. Watching your films or flocking to see your plays. Hell, if you brought out a musical I bet people would watch it. Even if it was progressive rock based.