A Health and Social Care Information Centre and Home Office joint survey, Drug use, smoking and drinking among young people in England in 2005, showed four per cent of 11-year-olds and six per cent of 12-year-olds had sniffed volatile substances compared with one per cent of 11-year-olds and three per cent of 12-year-olds who had used cannabis.
Martin Barnes, chief executive of charity DrugScope, said: "Despite the profile given to harmful drug deaths, more under-15s die from volatile substances." The report said 19 per cent of pupils had taken drugs in the past year, while 22 per cent had drunk alcohol in the past week.
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