usty pipes ... cocaine traces were found in treated water in England. Picture: Thinkstock Source: News Corp Australia
COCAINE use in Britain is now so high it has contaminated the drinking water, scientific tests have revealed.
Experts from the Drinking Water Inspectorate experts found traces of the party drug, in a form that has been passed through the body, in treated tap water — despite intensive water purification treatments.
Steve Rolles, from the drug policy think tank Transform, told The Sunday Times that the findings reveal how widely used cocaine is.
"We have the near highest level of cocaine use in western Europe," he said. "It has also been getting cheaper and cheaper at the same time as its use has been going up."
About 700,000 people aged 16 to 59 are estimated to take cocaine every year in Britain.
As well as benzoylecgonine or metabolised cocaine, scientists also found traces of ibuprofen, caffeine and carbamazepine, a drug for treating epilepsy, in tap water.
However health officials stressed that the traces of drugs found in the water supply were very low and unlikely to represent a danger to the public.
"Estimated exposures for most of the detected compounds are at least thousands of times below doses seen to produce adverse effects in animals and hundreds of thousands below human therapeutic doses," the report said.
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