Housewives hooked on cocaine: The middle-class mothers with a class A drug habit »

They snort it in the loo as their children play downstairs - and do the school run still crazed from their £300-a-week habit...

While her two eldest children did their homework in the kitchen and her youngest slept in his nursery upstairs, Francesca Keane seized the opportunity to steal two minutes of rare 'me' time.

Safely locked inside the bathroom, she rolled up a £20 note, knelt on the floor and snorted a line of cocaine from the toilet seat.

Instantly she felt her energy levels soar, and she returned to the kitchen to check on dinner feeling like a different woman.

It's a depressing scenario, but it's becoming a frightening reality in many middle-class households as women turn to cocaine to cope with the exhausting daily grind of juggling their professional and family lives.

An alarming report has revealed that the number of women abusing cocaine is almost at the same level as men for the first time, with 750,000 Britons having used the Class A drug in the past year. And one in 15 women under 25 admits to using it.

Addiction experts report a huge rise in the number of ordinary, middle-class mothers like Francesca using the drug, where once it was the preserve of those who worked in media, legal and City circles.

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