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The unique impacts of COVID-19 in our state, and changes in the business model of drugs are some of the reasons why Victoria has overtaken NSW to become the state with the highest proportion of self-reported cocaine use in Australia, as
Victoria has overtaken NSW to become the state with the highest proportion of self-reported cocaine use in Australia.
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But this stat, far from just being an interesting bit of trivia, tells a bigger story: the transformation of how drugs are consumed in modern societies.
Itâs a dramatic shift. For a long time, the organised criminal groups who had a stranglehold on drug supply in Victoria were more interested in amphetamines and kept cocaine north of the border.