How deadly crack cocaine can be bought and delivered on Britain's streets quicker than it takes to deliver a pizza
are also spreading the sale of crack outside London to major cities such as Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.
He added: “Every day I would go out shoplifting for half an hour, then sell what I’d stolen for half an hour, then smoke crack for an hour and repeat. That was my life. I’d do it on my own at home, watching TV and playing on my phone. Withdrawal is awful. You’d do anything for another pipe.” Their business model is simple but fiendishly lucrative – bypass existing drug networks and buy wholesale, direct from Latin American drug cartels.
Albanians now make up the second highest total of foreign nationals in UK jails at 760 – 433 of them for drug offences. She recalled: “From the very first pipe it was all-consuming. Crack addiction inhabits every sinew, every single part of you and fills your mind constantly.”who managed to hold down her job while indulging a serious habit. It affected her work — but she always got away with blaming it on a hangover.
The number of users rose by 8.5 per cent, from 166,640 to 180,748 in the four years to 2017. The number of adults starting treatment after using crack in England leapt by a fifth between 2015 and 2018.
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