Class A drug use 'at record levels due to young people'
Class A drug use was on a downward trend between 1996 and and 2011/12, from 9.2% to 6.2%.
Slight increases year-on-year since then have resulted in a"significant" rise, with around 8.7% of young adults taking a class A drug in the last year - or 550,000 people.drug deaths in England and Wales have reached record numbersThese were mostly due to opiates such as heroin, but cocaine deaths have doubled over the last three years. The production of both opium and cocaine are at their highest levels ever, according to the UN.
And according to the drug policy group Transform, it's those statistics on deaths that should concern us the most. "Given the Government's narrow focus on reducing use, the rise in class A drug use among young people since 2012 looks very bad," Steve Rolles from Transform tells Newsbeat."This year's drug death statistics are more revealing and more troubling - with deaths rising at a much faster rate than use."
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