Cocaine Capital of Europe ; a Disturbing Picture of Britain and a Young Generation Hooked On Drugs

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BRITAIN has become the capital of a European boom in cocaine, the EU's drugs agency said yesterday.

It called cocaine the new 'stimulant drug of choice', now more popular among the fashionable young than Ecstasy or amphetamines.

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Cocaine Capital of Europe ; a Disturbing Picture of Britain and a Young Generation Hooked On Drugs

And it linked the spreading use of cocaine with growing health problems and rising numbers of deaths from drug abuse.

The findings by the Lisbonbased agency say one in 20 young Britons have used cocaine over the past year and more than one in ten have tried the drug.

That level of cocaine use is far ahead of any oth...