Health secretary says cocaine trade causes ‘suffering, violence and exploitation at every stage’

Recreational drug users are fuelling an international criminal enterprise, said Sajid Javid, as the government announced a £780m strategy to to rebuild the drug treatment system.

The health secretary accused casual users of cocaine of being “the final link in a chain that has suffering, violence and exploitation at every stage”.

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