{"id":2068,"date":"2009-07-17T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:40:12","slug":"drugs-and-crime-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/drugs-and-crime-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs and crime in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>In West Yorkshire, 93% of young offenders were found to be regular drug users and spent \u00a3130 to \u00a3600 a week on drugs. Weekend expenditures ranged from \u00a360 to \u00a3300.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>All 93% were regular users of cannabis. Other drugs used regularly included Ecstasy (80%), cocaine (59%), amphetamines (53%), heroin (48%) and LSD (38%). Of the total sample, 43% believed they had a drug problem (e.g. they had no control over their drug use).<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Most of the young offenders admitted that crime was their main source of income. A closer examination of offenders\u2019 criminal activity and drug use showed that 65% of the total sample had committed crime under the influence of legal drugs (e.g. alcohol, inhalants). The proportion of the total sample committing crimes under the influence of illegal drugs was 44%.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Source: \u201cDrugs and Crime: Report of Findings.\u201d prepared by Caroline Bond and Janet Morgan for the West Yorkshire Police and the Regional Health Authority, 1993.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"titanic\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In West Yorkshire, 93% of young offenders were found to be regular drug users and spent \u00a3130 to \u00a3600 a week on drugs. Weekend expenditures ranged from \u00a360 to \u00a3300. All 93% were regular users of cannabis. Other drugs used regularly included Ecstasy (80%), cocaine (59%), amphetamines (53%), heroin (48%) and LSD (38%). Of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-violence-prison","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}