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Hello, this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio for.

I'm Matthew Price.

Every day we're asking one big question to bring you a little bit of context on some of the stories

that are around. We've already looked at how much money we have this week.

Tina's done a really sad piece on Instagram influences and today we're asking what's the real impact

of middle class cocaine use? I remember sitting in the back of the plane putting the tray table down and doing a line of cope with the girl I'd never met before from Germany whilst the plane was going and still at that

point I had no idea you know that I was a drug addict I just thought I was a party girl

I suppose. We know that drugs affect communities.

When I was a foreign correspondent,

I saw people killed by the cartels in Latin America.

We know that people die on our streets because of drugs.

And recently, the politicians and the police have said that

middle-class drug users are fueling crime. But there are other more personal

impacts which we started thinking about on the Beyond Today team. And today we want to tell you

three stories. First, Araminta. This place is impossible to navigate it.

A few days ago I drove to South Wales down a country lane to meet Arima at her farmhouse.

Addiction for me, I realized it started from way before I had a drink or a drug.

It started with food, I think it was my first addiction addiction and then moved on to love and then sex.

I was always swapping one for another to fill up what essentially I believe is a whole

that's inside of me and eventually I found drugs.

You're so excited when people are here aren't you?

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