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UK: Drugs and alcohol: the basics

David Batty

The Guardian

Tuesday 13 Mar 2001

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Drug use among schoolchildren has risen from 10 to 11% with more than one
in 10 children aged 11-15 admitting to using drugs over the past 12 months.

One in 10 British adults uses cannabis - higher than anywhere else in
Europe. And Britons use more than twice as much amphetamine as others in
the EU.
Since publishing its 10-year strategy, Tackling Drugs to Build a Better
Britain, in 1998, the government has unrolled a wide range of initiatives
to tackle the problem.
The latest round in the drugs war is a £200m fund to help police and local
authority drugs coordinators fight drug-related crime.
Alcohol abuse is estimated to cost the British economy £3.3bn a year,
mostly through premature death, unemployment and drink-related illness. The
long awaited national alcohol strategy, similar to the drugs strategy, is
not now likely to be implemented until 2003 at the earliest.

 

 

 

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