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30,000 British minors take drugs
Thursday December 27, 2012 07:58:20 PM,
IANS
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London: An estimated
30,000 British children aged 11 -- or one in 20 from across the
country -- have taken drugs and other substances in the past year,
a media report said.
Five percent of 11-year-olds said they had taken drugs in the past
year, which would be the equivalent of 29,950 children if applied
across the whole population, the Daily Mail reported.
The drugs include cannabis and "volatile" substances such as glue
and aerosols, and also cocaine, ecstasy and magic mushrooms, said
a study by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug
Addiction.
"The average age for someone trying cannabis for the first time is
just 13. That is a very important time because the brain is still
developing and drug use can cause lasting damage," said Mary Brett
of the campaign group Cannabis Skunk Sense.
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