Around 2.6 million young people used an illegal drug in past year, charity finds

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According to youth charity The Mix, there has been a 75% increase since last year in young people using substances to help them with life's problems, with one in five users doing just that.

He realises now that his drug use was never about partying or having fun with friends, instead he used them to cope and self-medicate to avoid the pain life threw at him.He added:"It was really a lot of hopelessness. What is the point in this? I didn't like how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to word what I was feeling either.

But there is fear that for far too many, getting access to drugs is much easier than getting access to mental health services.Cannabis sweets 'marketed at kids'According to youth charity The Mix, there has been a 75% increase since 2021 in young people using substances to escape problems in their lives, with one in five users doing just that.

 

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The giant Gas Bottles are a big problem too. I see these all the time litter picking. Found 7 last week in the same bush, dread to think what effect they had on these kids braincells😫

and the rest

They chose to go down that road that's their problem.

Bet it’s way higher than that

Got some good numbers from my guy gove 👃🏻🗻

Another example of cannabis being a gateway drug . Yes there’ll be thousands who didn’t go beyond but likewise there’ll be hundreds that did and do . Once you get into the drug scene and mix with others it’s quite a small step to next level . Plus cannabis affects young brains

Piss off, there'll be that many just in 1 region, god almighty, you are all so nieve, it's rife, I saw two 13 or 14 year olds snorting cocaine while they was setting up a market stall up on saturday morning, and adults were present, drugs are EVERYWHERE!! It's a way of life now

Ok that’s Scotland’s figures what about the rest of the U.K. ?

Next study results.....charity finds water is wet.

Let them enjoy any drugs they want, as long as it's not my loved ones, idc, go to town peoples, enjoy the highs 🤣🤣

Where? In London?

We should make sky news illegal!

Oh that estimate is WAY off.

What is a young person?

Which means alot more than that!

How many had a beer? Legalize drugs.

Well that's a rare and very new problem. My mum and dad were teenaged in the 60's and definitely didn't do drugs. Neither did I in the 90's. Groundbreaking 🤦

And the rest. Adults. Over 50s. Naive your are

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What? Like weed? Nooooooo. That preposterous!

Let's be honest, how many Bush Jr's, Jack Nickolsons, beetle type bands and other brilliant in the closet youth used an illigal drug, caugh cannabis. Lol

Around 2 million kids got caught, the other 600K the parents probablyknew about it. This isn't exactly new, what teen doesn't experiment with illegal activity? Just get the damn fentanyl off the streets, that shit has GOT to GO!

'Just stick with the legal stuff'

HEY! What about us oldies? Don't we count? Oh, look. A spider spinning its web. .....................................................................................................................................................................................................

What were the other ones doing?

They shouldn’t be more fun than the legal ones then should they!

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