The world’s unexpected coke capitals

The annual release of drugs’ wastewater analysis showed ketamine’s load increasing 41% since 2024, and England’s Bristol named the highest-using city among 115 analysed by the European Union Drug Agency. But “most intriguing” were 2 locations with the highest wastewater rates of benzoylecgonine, a metabolite in the urine of cocaine users – one was Middlesbrough in England.