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.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•4 hours ago

    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.

    • limonfiestaEnglish
      0•4 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 BosEnglish
        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.