Truth about cocaine revealed

STV
Advice: Cocaine dangers highlighted© STV

The downside of cocaine will be highlighted in the latest campaign in the Scottish Government's drugs awareness programme.

Know the Score was launched to encourage parents to discuss the realities of drugs and now offers help and advice to both groups and professionals.

Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing will reveal the downside of cocaine, including the fact that users are 24 times more likely to suffer a heart attack.

The drug is also linked to stroke and paranoia.

At the launch, at the Tramway in Glasgow, freestyle runners, known as parkour, will perform. The group has a drugs-free philosophy.

In 2008 there were 574 drugs deaths in Scotland.

Cocaine is now the second most used drug in Scotland with most of the drug is only 15% pure.