Irvine Welsh: Scotland has a new Trainspotting generation

The novel and movie Trainspotting defined Scotland's drug problem.

Following the lives of a group of friends in Edinburgh, it depicted communities destroyed by heroin addiction.

Have things changed?

Sky News speaks to the novel's author Irvine Welsh on a day when figures showed a record drop in a drug deaths in Scotland - but the country remains the drug death capital of Europe.

He says the Trainspotting generation has simply been replaced by another who have no prospects of escaping addiction and deprivation.

"People do not have the choice now, there's no avenues of social mobility left out of that desperation," he said.

"When you don't have anything else, drugs win by default."

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