“Now you can get it for a tenner and people are using it so casually,” says Kieran Appleby, a man who’s tried every drug but heroin. “It’s a generational shift,” he says, “Coke wasn’t an everyday drug then, but now it’s mainstream. When Kieran first used cocaine, he was somewhere “on the fence between being a serious drug user and a normal guy”. And he thinks recreational users should be able to test their drugs safely, that everyone deserves to know exactly what they’re putting into their own bodies. “Casual users don’t often think about or understand the chemical make-up of what they’re using - cocaine can blindside people, they don’t always realise what effect it’s having on their brain or how dependent they are.

Source: The Star April 18, 2022 04:04 UTC