In 2003, when agencies across Reading started working together to tackle the town’s drug problem, crack cocaine use was soaring, street prostitution to fund a drug habit was common and drug-related burglaries and robberies were sky high.In 2004 the figure for the number of people dependent on drugs was 775. But the latest estimate is that there are 1,750 people in Reading “with a predominant pattern of opiate and poly drug use”.
Worse still, Reading still has the highest death rate from drugs-related causes in Berkshire with nine deaths out of 22 in the county in 2006 occurring in the borough. http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/2017/2017299/we_must_tackle_drink_problem
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