"The best (drugs) worker in the world is not going to be able to pull in clients if the front door has paint peeling off it and is hanging off its hinges," says Krysia Pantechis, project co-ordinator at the Youth Drug Project in Croydon.
Her reflections on the state of drug services for young people coincides with a call by the Royal College of General Practitioners for an urgent review of drug services for young people (Children Now, News, 1-7 September).
Clare Gerada, a GP and the college's spokeswoman on drugs, said: "There's a big gap in services for children under 16 and very few specialist adolescent drug misuse services. Very often a 16-year-old is too old for child services but too young for adult ones, so they fall between the gap."
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