Kid Drug Abuse Toll At Record
A RECORD number of young people were treated for drug or alcohol abuse last year, a report has found.
Counsellors saw nearly 52,300 youngsters aged 13 to 24 in England — up 12 per cent in two years.
There were 19 per cent fewer people getting help for abusing “hard” drugs heroin and crack, figures from the National Treatment Agency showed.
But the number of under-25s treated for alcohol, cocaine, cannabis and Ecstasy problems went up 44 per cent.
Manchester University’s Professor Howard Parker told BBC Radio 1: “Alcohol is cheaper and more available, cannabis is stronger, cocaine is half the price it used to be.
“And you can get half a dozen Ecstasy tablets for £10. Put those four together and you’ve got just as serious a problem for health, family life and society as heroin.”
NTA’s Tom Aldridge added the increase was also down to more young people choosing to get help to kick addiction.
We at williamjordandirect the recovery is possible all day every day people continue to fight the fight not to end the war on drugs.With drug abuse on the rise among the young we feel a sense of duty to keep the war alive knowing first hand that any one suffering from addiction does not wants to use drugs they have to because addiction is and illness and once it get you it wants to kill you it like having H I V BUT NOT WANTING TO GET AIDS but being told you already have AIDs spend a day with any addict who has recovered and you will walk away with a better understanding.
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