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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

‘My beautiful sister died after doing a line of cocaine – we must stop glorifying drug use’

“You see the glamour, the fast cars, the thrill – but never the young person on their death bed, the kids living with parents with addiction.”

For Stacey Jordan, whose sister Lucy died after taking cocaine eight years ago, the heartbreak of witnessing drug use in social circles, at festivals and on nights out never goes away.

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