Crisis in UK as number of pensioners hospitalised for snorting cocaine skyrockets | UK | News
Hospitals see a new trend of amazing and worrying – elderly patients appear after cocaine grunting, not tingo mishaps. The latest NHS data showed that 723 retirees were accepted between March 2023 and March 2024 for cocaine problems, including a handful of 90s.
Many use class A drug to treat NHS unbezed disorders. According to health care statistics, among those who seek medical assistance, 75-79 years old, 70, 28 and 90 years old age. 156 OAP was treated for longer -lasting dependencies, while others needed treatment, depression or psychosis that may have been caused by cocaine use. Retirees from 23,644, treated for high addictive drugs, made up 3%.
However, more than 65 admissions were one-third higher than 2022-23, and 164 were four and a half times higher than 2014-15, when they were seen by doctors.
Drug addiction experts Ukat from Zaheen Ahmed said, “Some old people are experimenting with cocaine because they have more disposable income, less responsibility and more leisure time.
“Others may use this as a way to deal with mental health difficulties with loneliness, mourning or aging.”
Accordingly SunExpert, young people can return, age -related health conditions and prescribed drugs are not noticed, he added.
Cocaine (hydrochloride) is a white powder derived from the leaves of the coca plant. A powerful central nervous system that usually smells nose, increases the levels of neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain. The effects of cocaine are immediately and involve their feelings of euphoria, increasing wake and speech. However, short -lived effects can rapidly cause cocaine addiction, because users are encouraged to take over and over again to maintain euphoric effects. Cocain can also make the user feel anxious and create emotions to paranoia.
England is known as the capital of the UK cocaine and takes 873,000 people in 2020. In only 2020, there were 777 deaths in England and Wales due to cocaine poisoning.
Keeping cocaine is treated as a very serious crime in England. Cocaine is classified as a class A drug under the law of abuse of 1971 drugs, which means that the results can be severe. Even if it is found with a small amount, it may lead to arrest, criminal charges and a permanent criminal record. Class A property can lead to prison for up to seven years, while class B, including marijuana and ketamine, up to five years.
