10% of teenagers have tried hard drugs by age 17

Almost a third of 17-year-olds have tried cannabis and one in 10 have tried harder drugs, with similar rates of experimentation regardless of parents’ education level, finds a new study by Professor Emla Fitzsimons and Dr Aase Villadsen (both UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies).

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