Cocaine overtakes heroin as leading cause of drug deaths in England and Wales
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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 trend”, charities have said, with 1,233 deaths caused by cocaine last year.
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