It’s time to treat drug-addicted children as adults
Mark Johnson writing in the Guardian believes that without sufficient addiction treatment, 12-year-old Robbie will be drugs dependent, in jail or dead by 18. But the only effective residential treatment is illegal for under-18s, and non-existent in the area where he lives.
Type
Media
Topic
Drugs & Alcohol, Mark Johnson, Young People
Date
17/01/2012
Date Accessed
17/07/2024
Publisher
The Guardian
Author
Mark Johnson
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