‘Yeah you would rob your mother for heroin, for crack you’d actually kill her’

A LEADING drug project is reporting a sharp rise in crack cocaine use, with half of new cocaine clients taking the highly addictive drug.

‘Yeah you would rob your mother for heroin, for crack you’d actually kill her’

Addiction Response Crumlin (ARC) in Dublin said in the last six months the drug is being sold on the streets as crack. Before that, addicts bought cocaine in powder form and made it into crack themselves.

“In the first half of the year around one in five of the people attending the cocaine project were using crack. Now, it’s half,” said Rachel Cahill of the Croí Nua cocaine project at ARC.

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