Lorraine Heggessey involved in the dismissal of "Blue Peter" presenter Richard Bacon. In October 1998, the "News of the World" newspaper revealed that Bacon had taken cocaine, and he was subsequently sacked from his job as a presenter on the high-profile children's programme. Heggessey appeared on-screen in a specially-recorded one-minute address to viewers shown directly before the first episode of "Blue Peter" to be screened following Bacon's sacking, on 19 October 1998, to explain to young viewers why Bacon had been dismissed, claiming that he had "not only let himself and the team on "Blue Peter" down, but he has also let
Cocaine in the United States in the 1960s, undergoing a re-emergence of kind. in many discos such as Studio 54, even spawning open publications such as Adam Gottlieb's 1976 classic "If you enjoy The Pleasures of Cocaine this book may save your life" which appealed to the collective experience of prohibition to call for legalization: The drug also became particularly popular in rock music culture. Songs such as Eric Clapton's "Cocaine" was written by J. J. Cale. The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) reported that in the United States in 1999 that cocaine was used by 3.7 million people, or 1.7% of the