{"id":34436,"date":"2025-09-21T11:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34436\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:25:13","slug":"young-people-drinking-less-but-cocaine-now-normalised-beyond-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34436\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people drinking less but cocaine now \u2018normalised beyond belief\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Many Irish teens take drugs rather than drinking, and social \u00admedia accelerates this trend\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Many young women take cocaine as they feel it\u2019s not as damaging as alcohol. Photo posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages_2180031823.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Many young women take cocaine as they feel it\u2019s not as damaging as alcohol. Photo posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Younger people who are self-conscious of their body image are turning to illegal drugs over \u00adalcohol to prevent weight gain, a GP has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dr Garrett McGovern, a specialist in addiction, told the Sunday Independent cocaine use has now become \u201cnormalised beyond belief\u201d in Ireland, particularly among young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Irish teens take drugs rather than drinking, and social \u00admedia accelerates this trend Many young women take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18373,45,27007,2120,61,60,27006,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-34436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ali-bracken","9":"tag-an-garda-siochana","10":"tag-daniel-kinahan","11":"tag-hse","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-kinahan-cartel","15":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}