FIFTEEN PER CENT of the island’s secondary school students have dabbled with drugs.
Of them, 12 per cent were boys who said they had smoked drugs more than once.
These statistics were revealed by director of the National Task Force on Crime Prevention, Cheryl Willoughby, who was addressing teenaged boys at a Boys-To-Men workshop, put on by the Task Force at the 3Ws Oval, Cave Hill Campus, yesterday.
“Barbados . . . is grappling with violence among our young people. Drug use and violence are crimes we are confronted with on a regular basis. The inability of our young people to reason and to resolve conflict without the use of violence continues to be problematic for our small island,” she said.
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