A brief overview of evidence on use/carrying, trends, and then a series of 7 hypotheses about why the increase.
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Drug use from the Crime Survey for E&W: gov.uk/government/upl… (from gov.uk/government/sta…)
Drug purity: table 7.4 at gov.uk/government/upl… (from gov.uk/government/pub…)
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