Cocaine use under focus

A PLANNED Government review of the national drugs strategy will focus on the growing cocaine problem, junior minister Noel Ahern said yesterday.

But he rejected Fine Gael claims the Government was “massaging” figures on cocaine abuse.

According to Fine Gael’s Fergus O’Dowd, one in 20 young people between 15-24 years in Dublin had experimented with cocaine compared to Government claims of only 1.1% of the population.