Former drug addict says cocaine is 'rife' in Kent

Former drug addict Peter Foynes from Deal says cocaine use is 'rife' in Kent

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00:00Yeah, it's rife, it's bad, it's everywhere.

00:03Like they say in London, there's always a rat

00:05a hundred feet away from you, there's always cocaine.

00:07You either know someone that takes it

00:09or sells it or whatever, but yeah, it's getting bad.

00:13Yeah, very bad.

00:15Well, it's been glorified.

00:17People think it's cool to take cocaine, you know,

00:20like on the weekend, blah, blah, blah,

00:22but there's so many, yeah, downsides to it mentally.

00:26Do you know what I mean?

00:27It can take you to some dark places

00:29and do some stupid things, lose family.

00:32A lot of TikTok videos

00:33where people are glorifying it on there.

00:35I'm on TikTok myself and try to spread awareness.

00:38And I only seem to get a few thousand likes or whatever,

00:42but they're getting them within the millions,

00:44but they're promoting drugs.

00:45Do you know what I mean?

00:46Which is, the youngsters are looking up to that

00:49and it's terrible.