The number of cocaine users in France has nearly doubled to 1.1 million, with employees increasingly using the drug to cope with workplace pressures, a government report revealed on Wednesday.

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    1 day ago

    Have you been in a restaurant kitchen? Coke is the goto for staff, even at their shitty pay. It’s really rampant in our K-town districts, they probably get bulk discounts.

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      1 day ago

      I didn’t say there was no cocaine use. There’s always some level of drug use, what I call bullshit on is the idea that cocaine replaced Adderall en masse.

      Workers who need stimulants already have much better, and exponentially cheaper, drugs to use for that purpose.

      Like I said, if the article was talking about work-life balance driving more recreational drug use as a coping mechanism, I would believe that.

      I don’t believe that shift workers are replacing cheap and long lasting stimulants with the most expensive stimulant available.

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        21 hours ago

        In some areas, ADD meds are harder to come by than coke. I’m just reporting what I see and hear. It’s probably not true everywhere, but in certain areas, coke is way easier to get.