Some 200,000 Swedes have tried cocaine, and partygoers in Stockholm go through some 3,000 doses on weekend nights.
The calculation on clubbers’ consumption came after tests on that city’s sewage water showed traces of cocaine and a byproduct of the drug, according to TheLocal.com.
The samples were collected on a Saturday night in January and sent to Karolinska University Hospital in Solna for analysis, according to TheLocal.com. The work was done at the request of a Swedish TV show as part of a series on cocaine usage in Sweden.
“The tests show that the equivalent of 10-20 doses (100 mg) flows into the water system per hour,” hospital spokesman Olof Beck told the TV program Kalia Fakta. “The method is totally reliable.”
The testing method has been used previously in the U.S., England and Italy.
A 2007 test in Oslo, the Norwegian capital, revealed that 8,000 doses of cocaine are consumed daily, according to TheLocal.com. And a prior test on the Po River in Italy revealed that some 40,000 doses had been consumed in an area with around 5 million people.
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