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Cocaine use increases due to heroin shortage

Cocaine use has risen in recent weeks due to a chronic shortage of heroin, drug treatment services have said.

This is thought to be the first increase in cocaine usage in recent times, after a fall-off in consumption levels in the last two to three years.

The trend is being reported by several agencies in Dublin and HSE addiction experts in greater Dublin.
 
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Source: Cormac O'Keefe, The Irish Examiner, 14/12/2010
Posted by Andy on 12/14 at 10:23 AM in
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