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UK: Scale Of The Problem

Tryst Williams

Western Mail

Tuesday 04 Jan 2005

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IN 2002, the Welsh Assembly Government issued a circular to schools on the
problem of substance misuse among children and young people with the aim of
creating a co-ordinated approach to dealing with the problem.

The circular stated that, in 1998, 41% of girls and 42% of boys aged 15-16
had used illicit drugs.

This represented a near-doubling of 1990's figures, when 20% of girls and
24% of boys said they had used illicit drugs. And earlier this year, a
pan-European study showed Britain's teenagers among the continent's
heaviest drug users and drinkers.

The survey of 15 and 16 year-olds across 35 countries by the European
School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs, found that in the UK, 42%
of boys and 35% of girls admitted they had tried illegal drugs at least
once, 23% of boys and 16% of girls had used cannabis within the past 30
days and nearly one in 10 teenagers said they had tried illegal drugs other
than cannabis.

 

 

 

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