DRUG users who think there’s no long-term damage to health from cocaine have been warned by a coroner they are “entirely wrong.”

An inquest at Caernarfon heard how 22-year-old factory worker Robert Samuel Hughes, of Cae Rhos, Brynteg, Anglesey, died at his home in October.

North West Wales senior coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones said most drug deaths were from users taking too much. “This case is slightly different in that it highlights the damage caused by in this case cocaine,” he remarked. “Those who use cocaine think there’s no long-term damage. But they are entirely wrong because what we are finding is there is haemorrhaging in the lungs, in the heart and kidneys.”

Mr Hughes died because of the abuse of drugs, the coroner concluded. “Virtually every week when I have inquests, there’s a drug-related death. It’s a sad reflection on society,” Mr Pritchard Jones added.