UK 'has secret cocaine addiction and drug is used everywhere' - major study suggests

Sky News ^ | June 13, 2019 | Jason Farrell

[familyop]

In the largest study of its kind, the experts found cannabis is used by almost 80% of drug users, while cocaine or crack cocaine is taken by 70%...And 90% of users who responded to the survey are employed or in full-time education...Bryony Gordon said her addiction to cocaine crept up on her while living a hectic social life - but nearly destroyed her when it took a grip. She said: "It destroys lives. It tends to lead to people searching for the next high, and all normal reservations come down. "It makes you inherently risky and you don't care about the consequences until the next day."

[familyop]

Ping.

Thought you might be interested in this one. Variants of ecstasy (MDMA and mix of whatever) and Xanax have been flooding more into the U.S. Midwest, more often unmarked (score on one side, no other markings...could be more local pill mills).

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[Bonemaker]

I think a normal human being would have to seriously be on alcohol and/or drugs to thrive in today’s UK.

[philman_36]

Who appointed Bryony Gordon as spokesperson for everybody?

Oh...Bryony Naomi Gordon (born 5 July 1980 in Hammersmith, London[1][2]) is an English journalist.

Regular readers of the Telegraph will recognise her style from her confessional columns.

Never mind.

[Does so]

Because the American MSM pales to excellent British reporting, I suspect this cocaine drug problem is worse over here!

[philman_36]

BTW...the title of the telegraph article...
"Bryony Gordon on her struggles with drugs, bulimia and OCD: 'Cocaine shut up all those voices in my head' "

[Savage Beast]

THE DECADENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Cocaine+Tinder+STDs = UK in decline

Add the Islamics and the nation is screwed.

[texas booster]

I always thought that cocaine and Ecstasy caused mind blowing orgasms in women. Thus women trading sex for drugs.

Now we find out that cocaine is better than LSD for psychotic episodes.

Who knew?

[oldasrocks]

Free fentanyl for all I say.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I always thought that cocaine and Ecstasy caused mind blowing orgasms in women.

And here I thought it was skill.

[House Atreides]

And here I thought it was skill.
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That’s what she said. ;-)

[NorseViking]

That explains the look of near everyone in their political class.

[grumpygresh]

They have drag queens in libraries and teach kids about self stimulation in kindergarten, why not give middle school kids cocaine and high schoolers heroin.

The when they graduate to prison, they can work for cocaine and heroin there at 50 cents an hour. After they get out, they will get drugs on the street and go back into prison.

[grumpygresh]

If you’re a vet, your doc might want to try double dose duloxitene. Docile and no complaints.

This actually happened to some vets courtesy of VA docs.

[cherry]

a good part of western civilization is going down......I think its unstoppable...

weed is just the symptom of our deranged society.....throw in homosexuality,gender confusion,nose rings,etcc.....

but where do we go?....is there any place anymore where people live sanely, morally?

[RoosterRedux]

Thus women trading sex for drugs.

I always thought that women traded sex for drugs because they were trading something they had for something they wanted.

[RoosterRedux]

"People think that it's [cocaine is] a middle class, middle aged dinner party drug, but our experience is that it's everywhere."

If it's a dinner party drug, the person doing cocaine is the one not eating dinner but disappearing into the bathroom every 15 minutes.

And as to cocaine being a party drug, it is a party drug because when a person has cocaine he is no longer a functioning person. In other words, wherever he is, a person doing coke is having a party...hence "cocaine is a party drug."

Bottom line on drugs is that when the world has gone wacko with "relative morality and fluid reality"...why not get high to make it bearable.

That's why Liberals do drugs.

[RoosterRedux]

Life, even human life, is a pendulum...life collectively that is.

Some people will see that drugs are killing people and head in the other direction. Even some people using drugs will wake up to the danger.

The really positive thing about this change will be when people recognize that it isn't just the drugs but also the underlying culture of Liberalism that makes the taking of drugs okay and even necessary (i.e., drugs make the meaninglessness of Liberal life tolerable).

As Jordan Peterson and others have said, the goal of life isn't happiness and having a good time.

The goal of life--the thing that makes life tolerable--is meaning.

There is no "meaning" in Liberalism (i.e., postmodernism, socialism, subjective morality, gender fluidity, etc.).