COKE NATION Inside cocaine’s rapid rise to Ireland’s drug of choice as country ranks top of EU ‘Devil’s Dandruff’ usage listBY the time supermarket tycoon Ben Dunne was busted for snorting cocaine with a sex worker in 1992, the Irish public were getting to grips with the designer drug. By then, prolific — and usually wealthy — users couldn’t get enough of the drug, and the public became hooked on the coverage. More than three in five people seeking drug treatment are in for cocaine — and it didn’t take long for Ireland to become addicted. Trinity College boffin Cedric Wilson claimed: "There are people actually coming here from England because it is easy to get heroin and cocaine." Gardai seized 82 grams of the drug in 1981 and 95 grams in 1983 when 23 people were charged with a cocaine offence.

Source: Daily Nation August 21, 2023 06:19 UTC