Scotland Tops World Cocaine Use

[Scarface]

Scotland, the only nation in the world where Coke isn't the #1 soft drink, tops the world for using coke:

 

Scotland has again topped the world league for cocaine consumption.

 

Figures published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) show 3.9% of Scottish residents aged between 16 and 64 used the drug in the past year.

 

That was a higher proportion than in any other country and compares to 2.5% for England and Wales.

 

The figures also showed Scotland with a rate of heroin use twice that of the rest of the United Kingdom.

 

The UN's annual World Drug Report was published in New York as part of the organisation's attempt to understand the transnational nature of the drug trade which, it says, requires to be tackled globally.

 

Among the statistics is an analysis of each country, with Scotland shown as having the world's highest percentage of people using cocaine at 3.9%.

 

The figures also suggested Scotland had the highest rates of consumption of heroin (1.59%), cannabis (8.4%), amphetamines (1.4%) and ecstasy (2.5%) of all nations in the UK.

 

Drug awareness charities said cocaine had replaced ecstasy as the most-used "party drug" in Scotland.

 

John Arthur, the manager of Crew 2000 in Edinburgh, admitted the use of cocaine and other psychostimulants was "very high" in Scotland.

 

He said: "Our work with professionals such as social services, educational workers and medical staff around cocaine consistently report high levels of use amongst their service users as well as within their own social circles.

 

"This suggests suggests cocaine use has become normalised in most sections of society."

 

The Scottish government has urged caution when reviewing the figures, which it said were taken from a household survey carried out in 2007.

 

It said more recent Scottish Crime and Justice surveys showed a decrease in cocaine prevalence in Scotland, with figures of 2.7% in 2008/09 and 2.1% in 2009/10.

 

 

Cocaine use

Scotland: 3.9%

England and Wales: 2.5%

Northern Ireland: 1.9%

United States: 2.4%

 

But a spokesperson said: "The risks to health of individuals and communities who use cocaine are as serious as they are significant.

 

"That's why the Scottish government has taken action to raise awareness of the risks."

 

In November 2010, it launched its latest cocaine campaign aimed at 18-24 year olds, using cinema and online advertising and holding cocaine awareness weekends in bars and clubs across Scotland.

 

The Labour MSP for South Scotland, Graeme Pearson, a former director of the Scottish Drugs and Crime Enforcement Agency, said the figures showed a rethink on drugs policing was needed.

 

He said: "The upsurge in cocaine use began about five or six years ago.

 

"Although a new strategy was launched four years ago, it has not brought about a downturn in the use of drugs."

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13898046

[Dynamo]

Wonder where Mexico and Columbia are on the list...

[Tommy]

Wonder where Mexico and Columbia are on the list...

 

 

They'll be well behind us,

[Stoney]

Scotland, the only nation in the world where Coke isn't the #1 soft drink, tops the world for using coke:

 

 

Would that not work out to be the entite population of ABZ

[BrianFaePerth]

Well done tae all concerned. Good tae see Scotland being the best at something

[tup]

Some recognition for Roberto at the end of a horrendous week.

[phoenix]

Don't know why.....mebbe because I d'a ken onybuddy that does coke anymore.....but I don't take the figures as being the Truth , the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth.

 

F u c k i n g disappointing if this is what we are World Leaders at.

 

As tho' the Wonders of the Universe werenae enough.

 

Snorting cocaine is soooo OLD !

 

 

[tup]

Don't know why.....mebbe because I d'a ken onybuddy that does coke anymore.....but I don't take the figures as being the Truth , the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth.

 

F u c k i n g disappointing if this is what we are World Leaders at.

 

As tho' the Wonders of the Universe werenae enough.

 

Snorting cocaine is soooo OLD !

 

Well, the figures are skewed by Glasgow.

 

If we assume everyone in Glasgow is a cocaine fiend, or 95% of them, then it makes the rest of the country's stats look OK.,

[Bebo]

Well, the figures are skewed by Glasgow.

 

If we assume everyone in Glasgow is a cocaine fiend, or 95% of them, then it makes the rest of the country's stats look OK.,

 

Glasgow and the surrounding area (along with Leith) pushes up the numbers for heroin consumption. Aberdeen takes the crown for cocaine, and that's without adding in Scarface's usage.

[boboisared]

No one took Roberto's warnings seriously then?

 

What's the % of Scottish folk eating cherry bakewells?

[tup]

No one took Roberto's warnings seriously then?

 

He's the archetypal boy who cried wolf.

 

If you talk sh*t constantly, the nugget of truth amongst will be ignored.

[BrianFaePerth]

 

 

If you talk sh*t constantly, the nugget of truth amongst will be ignored.

 

 

Did Ye say something tup?

[Coopy100]

Glasgow and the surrounding area (along with Leith) pushes up the numbers for heroin consumption. Aberdeen takes the crown for cocaine, and that's without adding in Scarface's usage.

I actually think scarface spends his saturday nights locked in his bedroom at his mums place wanking himself into self loathing and dreaming what the touch of a proper woman rather than the plastic ones he has would be like all the while sobbing into his cup of hot chocholate or horlicks his mum has provided him to help get him off to sleep.

[Scarface]

I actually think scarface spends his saturday nights locked in his bedroom at his mums place wanking himself into self loathing and dreaming what the touch of a proper woman rather than the plastic ones he has would be like all the while sobbing into his cup of hot chocholate or horlicks his mum has provided him to help get him off to sleep.

 

Sounds like a Psychological Projection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

[Pash]

 

Wonder how much of this 'coke' is actually cocaine though. About 0.01% I imagine.

[spamspamspam]

I've only been back 6 month as well

[tup]

 

Wonder how much of this 'coke' is actually cocaine though. About 0.01% I imagine.

 

Scotland's use of sheep face white powder, bought fae Thainstone, disna have quite the same drama about it.

[BrianFaePerth]

 

 

Not all look at me, look at me but in Jamaica a few years ago i got off with a fruity character called Reggae Mike down in Ocho Rios beach. f**k me backwards i was mangled from a line.

 

 

 

That sort of thing wid put ye off drugs for life

[BrianFaePerth]

You would think so, but i kept on going back.

 

 

So yer homo sub messages were loud and clear when it came tae reggae mike then?

[Ke1t]

I'm not sure how they can say

 

"This suggests suggests cocaine use has become normalised in most sections of society."

 

When less than 4% of the population toot coke...

 

I'd say that suggests that it's a very, very small percentage of the population who regular does whizz, rather than the norm.

[E-P-K]

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/01/21134813/6

[scotfree]

Coke is overrated.

[dj_bollocks]

What's the link to the op Scarface ? Just curious.

[Henry]

To be fair coke is everywhere and there's NO way of stopping it.

[RUL]

i'd love to see how they calculate 4.00% and if they know how many folk are taking it then surely they know where its coming from.....no?

 

 

[dervish]

25-44 year olds (41.9%) reported having used illicit drugs at some point in their lives

 

 

Surly it's higher than that?

[Coopy100]

Sounds like a Psychological Projection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

No not realy. I just remember the photo of you that was posted on here. You liked like the sort who would do all that.

[tommo1903]

I would estimate that about 20% of people aged 20-24 have done coke in the past year in Aberdeen.

[Jones]

I would estimate that about 20% of people aged 20-24 have done coke in the past year in Aberdeen.

 

Really?

 

That's absurdly high(gerrit).

 

Absolutely no way that's even close.

[Scarface]

The Scots are the top drinkers and drug takers of the world,