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.
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.
I can understand executives, or people in finance, being able to not just justify their use of cocaine on the job, but more importantly, be able to afford it.
Unless cocaine prices have come down exponentially in the last decade, I can’t imagine being a shift worker and relying on cocaine to get through the day.
I’m going to call bullshit on this reporting. I would have believed that if they just said cocaine use has gone up, or that recreational use outside of work has risen.
If cocaine was dirt cheap, meth wasn’t cheap, or if it was hard to get an amphetamine prescription, I would be more willing to accept this reporting.
But as it stands, cocaine isn’t cheap, meth is, and prescription amphetamines are more common then ever.
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.
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.
Just a small nit, I would say ‘much’ cheaper or ‘dramatically’ cheaper. Exponential refers to rate od change, not magnitude of change. Something increasing by 10% a year is exponentially increasing, something that’s just gotten bigger could be increasing linearly or not at all.