The drug is available pretty much everywhere these days, a support worker says.
Aidan Ormsby, a drugs and alcohol support manager in Irvinestown, said it is now easily accessed in towns and villages across rural Northern Ireland."We're seeing it in all arts and parts of society and in all arts and parts of rural areas as well."
"We cover Fermanagh, the most rural part of Northern Ireland, and you know I don't think there's anywhere in Fermanagh or Omagh, or in the surrounding hinterlands of Omagh, that you couldn't get it, and that has become normalised, really," he added. Professor Anne Campbell, from the Drug and Alcohol Research Network at Queen's University Belfast, has told BBC News NI that a "harm reduction message" is needed around cocaine, similar to smoking and alcohol awareness campaigns.
"The difficulty with cocaine is that it's an illegal drug, it's a class A drug, so we will not see a public health campaign to educate our young people and our older people about the possible negative effects.""Society has a responsibility and I do think our organisations in power have a structural responsibility to educate people, in the same way as we do about alcohol, we talk about it freely.
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