Drugs. Its a bloody minefield. For the most part, people seem to take them recreationally without too much fuss. A lot of those people are those that chastise the drug trade in the press. However, the underbelly of the drugworld is unspeakably grim. And so, we go to Our Drugs War (Channel 4, Monday, 2 August, 8pm) in the first of a new series, subtitled: Everyone’s at It.

This first of a three-parter examines the global impact of drugs on society, focusing in particular on Scotland.

Why Scotland? Well, it was named by the UN as Europe’s drug capital.

Angus Macqueen visits an estate in Edinburgh with a couple of volunteers from the anti drug charity, Crew.

Together, they look at how the trade operates on a day-to-day basis and how some children as young as eight are involved in it all. There’s also the prickly topic of how the police are trying to control the situation.

Alas, it is an unenviable task as reports state that the law enforcers have seized just one per cent of the heroin consumed.