Cocaine deaths hit record number last year – more than than FIVE times that of a decade ago
COCAINE deaths hit a record number last year — more than five times that of a decade ago.Cocaine deaths hit a record number last year — more than five times that of a decade agoThat was nearly ten per cent higher than in 2019 and dwarfed the 144 who died in 2010.Nearly 80 per cent of the dead were men, the Office forThe total who died from all drug overdoses was 4,561 — also the highest since records began and double that of ten years ago.
Heroin accounted for half of them, and more than twice as many men died than women. Drug users born in the 1970s accounted for the majority.The ONS said: “There is an ageing cohort likely to be suffering the effects of long-term
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