Scotland's Drugs Shame: At Least Four 11-Year-Olds Injected Heroin Shocking Number of Under-16s Receive Treatment for Addiction
The Herald › February 06, 2006
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ATleast four 11-year-olds in Scotland were found to be injecting heroin last year and many more under-16s across the country received treatment for addiction, according to official statistics which reveal the true extent of pre-teen heroin abuse.
In four of Scotland's 32 local authority areas - Glasgow, Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire and Aberdeen - specialists dealt with 11-year-old intravenous heroin users, according to the 2005 Scottish Misuse of Drugs Database.See the full content of this document
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Scotland's Drugs Shame: At Least Four 11-Year-Olds Injected Heroin Shocking Number of Under-16s Receive Treatment for Addiction
In a further 24 local authority areas, children under 16 were found to be injecting the drug.
The youngest injecting heroin user in Angus last year was just 12 and in Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, Edinburgh, the Highlands, North Lanarkshire, East and We...See the full content of this document
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