Claire 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."
The review should focus on workforce issues, she added.
She was speaking following the publication of a report from social care charity Turning Point that calls for more training and greater integration between all agencies working with drug users.
- www.turning-point.co.uk.
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