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Article: Bye, darling. Have fun; For many young people, a gap year is their first experience of being free from parents and school. The urge to try everything, especially drugs, can be overwhelming.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2004
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Byline: DAISY FINER
TAKING drugs abroad is commonplace among travelling teenagers.
"Bearing in mind the background problem of drugs in schools, it is logical that the problem gets worse in countries where drugs are more easily available and cheaper," says Dr Charlie Easmon, who runs The Number One Health Group, a surgery that specialises in travel medicine.
Drugs are openly used in many foreign countries, particularly backpacker destinations such as India, Thailand and South America.
Only the most narrow-minded or puritanical would not acknowledge the fact that taking some illegal drugs can have enjoyable results, but it often ends in ...