Cocaine use in France doubles as workplace pressures drive demand
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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.

  • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours 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.

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      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.