What are the odds?

The percentages of children that said someone had approached them in the last 30 days and offered to sell them drugs. Anywhere from 1 out of every 8, to 1 out of every 5 children has been approached by somebody selling drugs.

The children were asked how difficult it would be to obtain drugs if they wanted some.
More than 1 in 5 kids that have not used any drugs in the past year said heroin was easy or fairly easy to obtain. Of the children that admitted that they had used drugs in the last year, that number jumps to 1 in 4. These children are not getting drugs from strangers standing on street corners. They are getting them from their friends at school.

The average starting age for hard, addictive drugs like cocaine and heroin is only 14. And that is the AVERAGE. Many kids are starting at only 12 years old.