The Guardian view on cocaine and domestic abuse: new links between drugs and crime need investigating | Editorial
But the spike in deaths linked to cocaine, which has overtaken heroin for the first time, as well as evidence uncovered by the Guardian of a link with domestic violence, points to the need for a drugs policy that takes account of changing usage.
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- Over the past decade, the grim trajectory has been upward; the annual figure of 5,519 has more than doubled since the 1990s.
Nearly six in 10 drug tests on people arrested on suspicion of domestic abuse were positive for cocaine in the year to June, while a previous study found that 59% of suspects tested positive for cocaine or opiates.
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