When I was growing up, everyone knew that one kid who 'did' drugs. Nowadays it seems it's 'normal' What happened.
Just googled my own question, this seems an official site. https://publications.parliament.uk/p...af/44/4405.htm
14.The single biggest structural driver of problem drug use is poverty and deprivation.35 Problem drug use is more prevalent “among people from more deprived area
If people are in poverty, how do they afford this habit, I understand some turn to crime, but if all drug users in poverty turned to crime, then surely there would be a permanent crime wave?