Costa del Sol
Cocaine use on the increase on the Costa del Sol
By h.b.
May 14, 2008 - 7:41 AM

The use of Cocaine by youngsters on the Costa del Sol is increasing in an alarming rate according to a new report. The average age of consumers is now between 25 and 30, and the number of middle class addicts who use the drug and weekends but are perfectly integrated into the workplace during the week is also on the increase.

La Opinion de Málaga reports that the Director of the Provincial Drug-dependency Centre (CPD), Francisco Luque, in his annual report for 2007, saw 246 new addicts over the year, up 24% on 2006. He warned that many people were spending a great deal of money on the drug, dropping other activities in their lives, and then generating problems in society.

Treatment of addicts is a six to eight month long process and is generally successful if social and labour conditions are favourable.

Meanwhile a gang of drug traffickers, who moved cocaine dissolved in bottles of white wine, has been broken up in Campillos in Málaga.

Police have impounded two bottles of wine found to be containing a kilo of the drug which was brought in by the gang from Mendoza in Argentina and distributed along the Málaga coast.
Four people have been arrested. Cipriano E.A. and Antonio S.M. from Campillos, and Harold C.B and Henry Gustavo G.L., both from Colombia.