Under the four-year Breaking The Cycle pilot project, which is bankrolled by the Zurich Community Trust, specialist family workers will be linked to social services working at Addaction centres in three areas - Cumbria, Derby and the east London borough of Tower Hamlets.
Staff will work with adult clients to see if they have young people living with them.
The projects are based on recommendations made by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in its 2003 report Hidden Harm, which the Government responded to last month (YPN, 23-29 March, p4).
Peter Martin, chief executive of Addaction, said: "There are an estimated 350,000 children with parents using drugs in the UK and young people are seven times more likely to use drugs if their parent does. In some cases we are seeing third- or fourth-generation drug abuse."
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