Summary

Cocaine in communities 2 years on...

In March 2004 Citywide published the results of a survey about the extent to which community based drug projects were dealing with the problems of cocaine use. Despite government reluctance to acknowledge the problem at the time, a number of reports including one from the National Advisory Committee on Drugs and indeed our survey clearly illustrated that cocaine was indeed a growing, real problem.

Two years on, cocaine is widely recognised as being readily available and causing major problems in our communities; Citywide has once again surveyed Drug Projects to see what if anything had changed and how local communities were responding. The results of this survey are highlight in this newsletter.