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Drug use increasingly rampant in schools
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One in FIVE secondary school children have tried drugs in the last year. This was the damning conclusion of a Information Centre for Health and Social Care survey of 9,000 youngsters, aged 11-15, from 305 different schools. Their findings are as follows;
- 10% of those surveyed smoke at least one cigarette a WEEK.
- 25% said they had been offered cannabis.
- 12% said they had tried other drugs.
- 4% had taken CLASS A drugs.
- 6% of 11-year-olds said they had taken drugs in the last year.
- 33% of 15-year-olds had done the same.
- The number of 11 to 15-year-olds who smoke is DOWN by 9%.
- For more details, click here
The only piece of good news is the numbers who smoke are falling, but the rest of the results are shambolic and appalling. With drug use so rampant in schools, how do we deal with it? And can we have confidence this government knows how to deal with it? Let's see... they've downgraded cannabis whilst telling us it's bad, a message that's as clear as mud. Not the best of starts, was it? And the news that some 11-year-olds are hooked on drugs cannot be condemned enough. How the hell do we get this under control?
- 10% of those surveyed smoke at least one cigarette a WEEK.
- 25% said they had been offered cannabis.
- 12% said they had tried other drugs.
- 4% had taken CLASS A drugs.
- 6% of 11-year-olds said they had taken drugs in the last year.
- 33% of 15-year-olds had done the same.
- The number of 11 to 15-year-olds who smoke is DOWN by 9%.
- For more details, click here
The only piece of good news is the numbers who smoke are falling, but the rest of the results are shambolic and appalling. With drug use so rampant in schools, how do we deal with it? And can we have confidence this government knows how to deal with it? Let's see... they've downgraded cannabis whilst telling us it's bad, a message that's as clear as mud. Not the best of starts, was it? And the news that some 11-year-olds are hooked on drugs cannot be condemned enough. How the hell do we get this under control?
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The world will keep turning, the kids will keep saying that smoking one of their brother's reefers makes them hardened drug users.
I don't care either way.
Dealers don't care about age, so young people are always going to be able to get drugs.
The law's an ass.
And I readily concede I don't have all the answers. Far from it.
No, you are.
thanks, i've been wanting to use that one for a while now.
That’s a pretty low number. Underage smoking isn’t cool and it’s not to be encouraged but it’s not exactly new and it’s not really a big deal.
Again that’s pretty low, lower than I’d have thought from my experiences a few yrs ago. Nothing new, not a big deal.
These numbers are all low, they’re rising and I guess that’s a worry but kids experimenting with cannabis, magic mushrooms and even cocaine was all pretty normal to me a few years ago and at 18 or 19 now everyone I know has turned out OK. There should be more help for those that develop addictions and problems and get really into drugs but I don’t think we need to panic.
Real serious stuff like heroine and crack are rare among children – while that’s something that does need to be looked at teenagers sharing a bong on a weekend isn’t a big deal.
25% offered cannabis. How many accepted though?
Its quite low, but the 11 year olds bit is worrying. Meh. Could be worse. I am off for a joint
SG I'd love it if you had the bottle to try a pill, fuck the legality of it. You don't know what your missing mate.
Buy a bong. Buy weed. Enjoy.
you realy haven't mixed much with the world remember ...
little has brushed off on you so far in life cos you haven't actualy mixed and brushed much with the world outside your house.
think up somee answers mate ...and' i'll bet they all go pretty much along the lines of what we have already done for forty years ...which has resulted in this country stock piling everything that is illegal... it now costs as much as a lucky bag did when i was a kid.
when i was 11 ...theres no way i could even afford a bottle of beer let alone an addiction ... :chin: ...
The above figures don't seem unrealistic though and haven't put me in an imediate 'right we must take action' flap...
No point to that post, just bored and wanted to say something.
i'm in a flap about it.
i am worrying about the children of my family ...aged from three to fourteen.
what dispicable state of affairs will the three year old face SG ...if we carry on dishing out ten billion quid a year in the uk to ...scum?
how many guns will be controlling how many areas?
sounds very 1920's to me.
death and mayhem.
i believe the people ...by way of government ...should take control of the situation by putting a stop to crimial elements controlling one of the nations most lucrative pharmacutical industries.
moraly we can no longer wash our hands of the problem by paying gangsters to control the situation.
If you 'really' were intrested in understanding....
Did you watch that ecstasy rising docu?
In between the rows of dots, he does have a point.
Having little experience in life isn't something to blame anyone for, but in light of this you should have a think about the thoughts and opinions of those who have had more wordly experience.
I'm not saying that you should be taking every substance under the sun (or indeed any at all), or anything else you don't agree with.
But you should try and gain a view of the world outside of whatever newspapers you read.
I probably used to have similarly simplistic views when I was a good few years younger.
This sounds awfully patronising, and I suppose it is, but hopefully going away to uni will provide you with some alternate perspectives.
It doesn't matter.
Ecstasy Rising is a seriously good introduction to the ecstasy debate, whether you're a user or not. Watch it.