Middle classes warned cocaine is not safe

By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor 536PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

Professor Les Iversen pronounced a notice had grown that usually "down and outs" receiving crack heroin were putting their lives in danger.

But he warned the Class A drug was "one of the majority addictive substances well well known to man" and was positively not safe.

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Earlier this month a organisation of MPs pronounced courts and military are as well soft on heroin abuse and celebrities seen "getting afar with it" are glamorising and normalising make make make make make use of of of of of of the drug.

The inform by the Home Affairs Select Committee pronounced military descriptions of "recreational" make make make make make use of of of of of were "downright dangerous" and criticised the picture of people holding down successful careers whilst utilizing cocaine.

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), that Prof Iversen chairs, has launched an exploration in to heroin make make make make make use of of of of of to strengthen the health risks compared with it.

The examination will not call for any shift in the sequence of the drug.

Appearing prior to the home affairs cabinet yesterday, he pronounced "The notice of heroin has someway malleable in this country, to the border that a little users cruise it to be a comparatively protected drug.

"This is one of the majority addictive substances well well known to man and it"s positively not protected and the risk of genocide from overdose is positively there.

"The thought that seems to be gaining belligerent someway that powder heroin is someway all right for center category users and crack heroin is what the down and out on the travel corners make make make make make use of of of of of is a finish misconception."

Cocaine make make make make make use of of of of of between sixteen to twenty-four year-olds has risen from 1.3 per cent in 1996 to 6.6 per cent last year.

Separate total yesterday showed the series of women being treated with colour with colour for heroin obsession has risen by 55 per cent in only 4 years.

For the initial time powder heroin addicts in diagnosis have eclipsed those dependant to crack.

A investigate of women users carried out by the National Drug Treatment Agency (NTA) showed 1,652 women were treated with colour with colour for coke obsession last year compared to 1,063 in 2005/6.

Most of the climb was in the youngest age group, with the series of eighteen to 24-year-olds in diagnosis doubling from 328 to 595 over the 4 year period.

At the same time the series of crack addicts in diagnosis increasing by fourteen per cent from 1,223 to 1,348.