{"id":2090,"date":"2009-07-17T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2016-09-16T01:03:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T01:03:30","slug":"snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/snippets\/","title":{"rendered":"Snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In a study conducted in Liverpool and Manchester in 1992, 33% of 14-15 yr. olds in North West England had tried drugs &#8211; 59% had been offered drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(Source: Alcohol Education and Research Council 1993)<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In rural East Sussex, a study of 2,000 children showed that 25% of the boys and 17% of the girls had tried drugs by the age of 15 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(Source: East Sussex Health Authority, the Home Office 1993)<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In England and Wales over 50% of the 45,000 people in prison are addicted to drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(Source: Addictive Diseases Trust, 1994)<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In the UK, 450 children start smoking every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(Source: Smoking and the Young , Royal College of Physicians 1992)<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Between 9,000 and 13,000 practising doctors may be addicted to drugs and\/or alcohol<\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(Source: Health &amp; Fitness. March 1997)<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The total cost to the National Health Service (GP consultations, outpatients visits, inpatient visits, prescriptions) for smokers is \u00a36l0 million plus, per annum. Prescriptions alone account for \u00a31 million per week.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(Source: The Smoking Epidemic: A Prescription for Change. Health Education Council \/993)<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study conducted in Liverpool and Manchester in 1992, 33% of 14-15 yr. olds in North West England had tried drugs &#8211; 59% had been offered drugs. (Source: Alcohol Education and Research Council 1993) In rural East Sussex, a study of 2,000 children showed that 25% of the boys and 17% of the girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-violence-prison","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus","category-nicotine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","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=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}