Cocaine Countryside ; Investigation: It Was Always Seen As a Big-City Drug Used by Celebrities Now It's the Scourge of Rural Areas
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IT'S Friday night and the regulars are beginning to arrive. With a mute TV flickering above the dartboard, a jukebox and karaoke machine, the pub seems typical of many in villages across Scotland. As the bar becomes hot and crowded and customers struggle to make themselves heard, Brian leaves the table in the corner where he has been drinking with six of his friends.
When he re-emerges from the toilets, the 35-year- old oil firm accountant is wide- eyed, his mood transformed and his post-work weariness forgotten.See the full content of this document
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Cocaine Countryside ; Investigation: It Was Always Seen As a Big-City Drug Used by Celebrities Now It's the Scourge of Rural Areas
Moments later, two of his friends go through the same routine.
Increasingly loud and boisterous, even over the first strains of the karaoke, they attract glances from some of the older drinkers and bar staff.To an outsider, it would seem all the pub in rural North-East Scotland has to offer is village gossip, the weekly football sweepstake and the prospect of a win on the fruit machine.But this tiny Aberdeenshire watering-hole is a regular haunt for users of cocaine, once regarded as an urban drug for well-off yuppies ...See the full content of this document
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