One of the country’s leading ER specialists has said cocaine is synonymous with grotesque violence. “The bottom line is cocaine is almost synonymous with grotesque violence, the sort of violence you see in movies and TV series like Narcos,” he said. While he said the three main drugs linked to violence are alcohol, cocaine and benzodiazepines, cocaine is the drug most linked to shocking levels of violence. “Basically, you have an often damaged mindset, you may have foetal alcohol syndrome, you may have grown up in a violence household and then you add in the drugs, particularly cocaine. "But of all the drugs cocaine is the worst, there is just this peculiar lust for blood.”

Source: Irish Examiner January 17, 2020 15:56 UTC