{"id":2124,"date":"2009-07-17T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2016-09-16T00:08:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:08:12","slug":"dutch-teenagers-get-hooked-on-drugs-at-an-ever-younger-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/dutch-teenagers-get-hooked-on-drugs-at-an-ever-younger-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Teenagers Get Hooked On  Drugs At An Ever Younger Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana;\">On August 1, the Dutch daily \u2018Rotterdams Dagblad\u2019 reported that youngsters get hooked on drugs at an ever-younger age. Youngsters are using especially cannabis increasingly in the age groups from 12 to 18 years.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Severely addicted youngsters have to deal with psychiatric problems and are increasingly admitted to special clinics to get rid of their addiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This is stated by the Dr. Kuno van Dijk Foundation in Groningen, the Netherlands, which receives young addicts. \u201cWe see that youngsters at the highest level of primary school in fact know all the different kinds of drugs\u201d, said spokesman Rob van der Vloed, according to the paper. \u201cThat is still something different than use, but it is remarkable that experimenting with drugs starts at an ever younger age. This results in a group of youngsters that become addicted to it and suffers from severe psychiatric problems.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The foundation in Groningen runs one of the few institutions in the Netherlands where it is possible to treat severely addicted youngsters. From the lst of January 2002 onwards it will be officially recognized as an addiction clinic. \u201cThis should be seen as a recognition of the problems that this target group suffers from. The Ministry of Health now indicates that these kind of clinics are necessary and gives us the money to combat the problems.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Although the use of cannabis produces the biggest problems, the addiction care services also see a shift towards the use of other drugs. \u201cWe encounter\u00a0 more and more so called poly-drug users. These are youngsters that take everything they come across and can pay for.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The youngsters that are treated, show &#8211; apart from severe addiction problems &#8211; severe problematic behaviour and have psychiatric complaints. More than 40 percent of them have been diagnosed as having a psychiatric disturbance. Distorted family relations cause problems for a lot of youngsters.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The youngsters that are being admitted into the foundation\u2019s clinic stay for a few months, up to one year. More than 40 percent of the youngsters admitted don\u2019t complete the treatment.<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Source: Dutch daily newspaper Rotterdam\u2019s \u2018Dagblad\u2019 August 1st 2001<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 1, the Dutch daily \u2018Rotterdams Dagblad\u2019 reported that youngsters get hooked on drugs at an ever-younger age. Youngsters are using especially cannabis increasingly in the age groups from 12 to 18 years. Severely addicted youngsters have to deal with psychiatric problems and are increasingly admitted to special clinics to get rid of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-uk","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","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=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}