To mark this milestone this series of extracts or summaries reflects on aspects of youth policy and youth work practice over the past 25 years as featured in the 100th issue.
Young People and Illicit Drug Use: Differentiated Experiences and Policy Failures
Tracy Shildrick
Young people persist in being the biggest group of consumers of illicit drugs. At times it seems as if their engagement with illicit drugs is the "single, most talked about, written about and broadcast about item in contemporary discourses about the state of the young in the UK". The past 25 years have been perhaps some of the most eventful in respect of young people's drug use, with rates of use dramatically increasing. It is reported that amongst young adults lifetime prevalence of drug use has moved from around 10 per cent in the 1970s to around half during the 1990s and beyond.
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