An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown
In the United Kingdom, cocaine use is rising at a disturbing rate. The number of people under the age of 18 treated for cocaine addiction is up 65 percent. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said that the use of cocaine has increased five times among 16 to 59-year-olds in the last twelve years.
Professor Les Iversen, the director of the ACMD, has written to Britain’s Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, to say that immediate action is needed to “counteract the increasingly common misapprehension that cocaine is a relatively safe drug.”
“Cocaine is a very harmful drug to individuals and more broadly society and evidence of the continued increasing prevalence of cocaine use is deeply concerning,” Iversen said. Iversen also said that cocaine must remain a Class A drug in Britain.
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTASM) said one in ten drug users entering treatment in Britain are getting help for a cocaine addiction. This is a four percent increase over the past four years. More than a third of those people are between 18 and 24 and they are “much more likely to come from a broad range of social backgrounds than the typical heroin users who traditionally form the majority of those in treatment.”
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