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		<title>Drug Misuse Declared</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Home Office have published their annual analysis of what the British Crime Survey says about drug use in England and Wales.
I&#8217;ll focus on what the chapter on young people, by which they mean 16 to 24 year olds, has to say.
The headlines are:

Around four in ten young people (42.2%) have ever used illicit drugs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1869&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crime in England and Wales 2007/2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Home Office have published their annual report on crime in England and Wales, which includes the British Crime Survey figures and police recorded crime.
On drugs they say:
Among 16 to 24 year olds there was a decrease in the use of any illicit drug in the last year, from 24.1% to 21.3%.
This they say is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1465&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>British Crime Survey</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/british-crime-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Home Office&#8217;s publication of the annual drug statistics from the British Crime Survey is the subject of widespread media attention.
The Guardian (x2) report:
 British Crime Survey statistics showed that the proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds using cannabis slumped from 28% a decade ago to 21% now, with its declining popularity accelerating after the decision [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=816&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trends in drug use among 16 to 24 year olds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent has a story on the latest drug figures and focuses on the fall in the numbers using cannabis:
Even in 16 to 24-year-olds, where drug abuse is more commonplace, the use of cannabis has significantly declined. In 1998, 28.2 per cent of that age group were estimated to have taken cannabis. That figure has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=313&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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