Cocaine use nearly doubles in France: study

Some 1.1 million people used cocaine at least once in 2023, according to a report published by the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT). The previous report, released in 2022, put the number of users at 600,000. The new figures put France in 7th place in Europe in terms of cocaine consumption. Record levels of global cocaine production and the drug's changing image were among the factors behind the increase, it said. People are now using cocaine not just as a recreational drug for the well-off...