The statistics from the NHS Information Centre showed 1,241 under-16s were hospitalised because of drugs last year – a rise of 45 per cent compared to 1996-97. The number of teenagers needing hospital treatment because of drugs was nearly 10,000 – an increase of ten per cent in a year. However, overall drug use among both children and adults is decreasing, according to the figures. The proportion of school-age children reporting taking drugs in the last year fell from 20 per cent in 2001 to 17...