Drugs awareness

[GIJane324]

I saw Breakfast on bbc1 this morning and there was a segment on there where they were talking about drugs awareness. They were discussing the fact that there should be drugs awareness classes taught in schools. I think this a great idea, as my son was approached when he was only 9 and asked if he wanted to buy some drugs. He is only 10 now, but is a growing concern with me as there are a lot of people in my area who take drugs and I feel children should be made aware of the risks. Does anybody else feel this way? I think there should be a petition to make the government teach children awareness!!

When my step sons were younger, I used to use programmes like Eastender and the Aussie soaps, which they loved, as a starting point for those type of discussions. I agree that the right level of information, early on is a good thing.

that's a great idea, thanks for the tip. am definitely gonna try that out.

My DD is 7 and we have recently been having endless conversations about drugs. It took me a while to work out why she had brought it up and where it had all come from until I remembered various Tintin books (e.g. Tintin and Blue Lotus) have plots relating to opium and opium trafficking. She loves Tintin. Anyway, I took the opportunity to discuss the whole drug thing in very basic (and more modern) terms with her and am actually quite pleased that it came up as it is now a topic that is 'out there' if you see what I mean and as she gets older we can discuss it further.

They actually do this here (Scotland), several times at primary school (and at least once at secondary), the police have come into the school with actual suitcases full of drugs (they SAID they were real, but who knows), and showed the kids what wraps, tablets and the different powders and drug paraphernalia looked like. The dangers of each drug was discussed.

It's no laughing matter but nevertheless the more cynical amongst us parents thought this was a bit too much - and more likely to educate the older kids about what their dealers should be supplying them with. The city near us has a very, very bad drugs problem.

I remember when DS had that drug talk, oldmum42 - he wouldn't accept sweets from any of his friends for ages afterwards because the police had told them that some drugs were designed to look like sweets, and that it was most likely a friend who would offer you drugs, rather than a stranger.

AgentP..... it did some good then . During the Q&A session at one of these drug talks, my DS (8 0r 9 at the time, and greatly impressed with the police presence) piped up with "my day has lots of drugs in a suitcase too"....... it was hastily pointed out this was work related but very !

Dad, not day!