Awareness 2000 - The Facts - Part of Lighthouse Focus

Bullying news reorganised
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Yorkshire bullycide
4 August 2002: an inquest in Whitby heard how 13-year-old Jack Glasby hung himself after being bullied at Caedmon School, Whitby, Yorkshire, which he had left five months previously. As a study by Kidscape found, the cumulative psychiatric injury caused by bullying at school endures, often throughout life. Problems started in February 2001 when another pupil hung Jack over a stairwell and said he would drop him. Caedmon School headteacher Tony Hewitt told the inquest strategies to help Jack were offered by the school and stressed that all incidents of bullying, however minor, were dealt with and documented. [More].

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Horrifying Facts On Drugs Use.

Young smokers are 22 times more likely to misuse drugs than non-smokers, a Surrey anti-drugs conference was told.

The seminar heard how almost half of young people under the age of 25 have used drugs and at least half of all recorded crime has a drug-related element.

It also heard how drug users are getting younger and how there has been a rapid escalation of heroin use over the past couple of years. One in five people who use recreational drugs goes on to become dependent.

These are some of the horrific facts presented to the Surrey Drug Action Team (DAT) conference attended by more than 100 people from health, education and social services and the police and prison services.

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