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Quarter of young Britons take drugs - survey
Reuter Friday 19 Sep 1997 and 29 admit to having taken illegal drugs in the past year, and one in seven did so within the past month, a government survey published on Friday said. But the survey, part of a larger look into crime in Britain, suggested that the level of drug taking had not risen significantly since a similar probe in 1994. Cannabis was the most popular drug, with 21 percent of young people having used it during the last 12 months. It was far ahead of amphetamines and ecstasy while only one percent of those surveyed said they had ever tried heroin. Junior interior minister George Howarth said he was to some extent reassured by the signs that drug taking is not on the increase. But he added: ``The figures are still worryingly high. Around one in two young people has experimented with a drug at some point in their lives, and one in four had taken a drug in the last year.''
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