Cocaine ‘fuelling barbaric violence’
PSYCHOPATHS are being fuelled by cocaine into committing barbaric violence, a leading medic has claimed.
Dr Chris Luke has spent most of the past 40 years working in emergency departments in Ireland and the UK.
He said: “The bottom line is cocaine is almost synonymous with grotesque violence, the sort of violence you see in movies and TV series like Narcos.”
Dr Luke added the drug can have horrific consequences when taken by sociopaths or psychopaths.
He said: “It’s most obvious and familiar effect is it gives people this intense euphoria, what they call the Master of the Universe Syndrome.
“A certain number of people become grotesquely violent.
“I think that is what is fuelling the barbarity we’re seeing now.
“Without a shadow of a doubt if you’re working in an emergency department the drug that is associated most commonly with extreme violence is cocaine.” Dr Luke, who works at University College Cork, revealed another relatively unknown effect is the supercharged strength it gives users.
He added: “You are turning them into a monstrously supercharged sociopath or psychopath with extraordinary strength.
“Cocaine confers incredible strength, so you need four, five, six men to restrain you even if you are a skinny weakling. That’s what cocaine does.
“That’s what Jekyll and Hyde is about. It’s about the effects of cocaine.
“My big, big message – we have to do drug screening for everybody who is arrested in relation to violence. I’m absolutely convinced the most important thing in the drug debate is to screen for drug use in people who have been involved in severe violence, particularly murder. I think it would reveal an astonishing level of connection.
“I think you’re talking about 80% to 90% of homicides will have some amount of alcohol, benzos, cocaine and maybe amphetamines. “But of all the drugs cocaine is the worst. There is just this peculiar lust for blood.”