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Cocaine may kill 500 over next decade

A leading consultant in emergency medicine has claimed the Republic is only about one quarter way through a cocaine epidemic, adding he expects 500 people to die from using the drug over the next decade.

Dr Chris Luke, who is based at the Mercy University Hospital, Cork, said he believed use of the drug in the Republic posed the “greatest risk to civil society”.

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Source: Conor Lally, The Irish Times, 14/12/2010

Posted by Andy on 12/14 at 10:16 AM in
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