Cocaine use increasing at alarming rate

PUBS and clubs are being targeted as part of a new campaign to combat rising cocaine use among young people.

Posters and beer mats will highlight the consequences of cocaine, which many recreational users see as relatively clean.

“The perception that cocaine is a safe drug needs to be corrected now before the use of what is an addictive poison grows any further,” said Dr Des Corrigan, chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD).