Offering more young people access to these messages is Wright's next task. But today, young people know where the local dealer lives, know about drugs and hear what others who use them are saying. We're talking about those critical years between 13 and 18, and if someone sees the show and remembers what we were saying, they may just stay out of trouble. Tempting fate More than a quarter of all 15 year olds say they have used drugs in the last year, according to official figures. The findings come from an annual survey of more than 9,000 pupils in 340 schools, commissioned by the Department of Health from the Office for National Statistics.
Statisticians say the trend is one of small annual increases in drugs use among younger teenagers.