It's a league table you don't want to boast that you are at the top of but it yet again the UK has claimed the top spot in the coke-user's list.
The figures come from the annual report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDD).
The figures reveal 9.4% of people in England and Wales have used cocaine at some point, and 6.2% of 15 to 34-year-olds have used it in the last 12 months.
Britain, with Spain, has featured at or near the top of the European cocaine "league" in six out of the past seven years.
Cocaine use among those aged 15 to 34 is higher in England and Wales than in the US, Canada and Australia, as well as the rest of Europe.
The EMCDD does not give figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland, but the United Nations' World Drug Report suggested that Scotland's rate of cocaine use among those aged 16 to 60 was among the highest in the world in 2009 at 3.7%.
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CarolineS
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That's a suprise, I find cocaine boring and expensive.
I would have thought marijuana would have topped the list! it certainly tops mine! - 1 year ago
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