Cocaine overtakes heroin as leading cause of drug deaths in England and Wales

Coverage, in order

1. 8d ago
   
   first Guardian Society UK mainstream

   Cocaine overtakes heroin as leading cause of drug deaths in England and Wales

   Charities say government ‘must act now’ with cocaine-specific deaths eight times higher than in 2010 Cocaine has overtaken heroin as the biggest cause of drug deaths in England and Wales, figures from the Office for National Statistics show. The government “must act now to reverse this deadly…

2. 8d ago
   
   BBC News Health UK mainstream observational

   Cocaine overtakes heroin as leading cause of drug deaths in England and Wales

   The number of deaths linked to cocaine use in England and Wales has nearly quadrupled in a decade.

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