Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Increase in Drug Abuse

According to the British Crime Survey Report for 2008-09, almost one million people use cocaine in the UK. This is the largest number of usage in the past 12 years and seems to be influenced by reduced price of the narcotic and an ease of supply.

The review focuses that half of the users of cocaine are aged between 16 and 24 and also the increase in the use of the drug ketamine in the same age group. Approximately 125,000 young people used the horse tranquillizer last year.

According to the survey conducted by the NHS Information Center for 2008 revealed that one in five children aged 11 to 15 agreed that they drank alcohol in the week before the survey was conducted and the average consumption was estimated at 12.7 units a week, equivalent to six pints of beer, or 13 glasses of wine.

There is a reduction in the number of children who drink but those who drink are drinking much more. The young people who are now drinking at or above safe adult levels, yet their bodies are less able to cope with the harm alcohol can cause.

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