What is the scope of Cocaine abuse in Alberta?

Alberta is a province in Canada where cocaine is very freely and easily available. There is a saying that cocaine can be bought more freely that a slice of pizza. In the outskirts of Fort Murray one could find oil factories. The camps inside the factory sell cocaine freely. Even if it was not found inside the camp it is freely available outside it. The drug peddlers dwell outside the camp to find a victim.

The menace of drug abuse is such that people as young as 17 years are victim of this substance. And by the time they reach 20 and above, the turn up being full fledge addicts.  Since the workers a away from family, they feel a mix of boredom, isolation and since the wage is pretty high, they could easily get hold of a few quantity of cocaine.

Inside the factory one can find more of transient workers more than the local people. These people do not get involved in the community meetings or anything. Since this population feel away from their family and loved ones, they tend of move away from this by abusing the drug and thus becoming full blown addicts. The drug has not only find takers inside the oil factories. It has found it way inside the schools in Alberta. It is shocking to note that there is not a single school in Edmonton where one cannot find the drug being used.

Now the condition has reached such that bigger companies now conducting drug test before hiring them as well as after any accidents that occurs in the workplace. The condition in Alberta has reached a state that police and social department are finding it difficult to cope up with the situation. Studies have found that marijuana is most preferred drug in Canada. About 63% of the population uses this substance. Other drugs like cocaine (10.6%), speed (6.4%) and ecstasy (4.1%) respectively.