UK - 86% of parents unaware of legal highs

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Last updated Thu 30 Aug 2012

  • 86% of parents have not heard, or know little about legal highs.
  • 3/4 of parents have never spoken to their children about legal highs.
  • A fifth 18% of those polled said they had never heard of the term legal high.
  • A further quarter 25% knowing nothing about them beyond the term.
  • 43% had heard about them but knew little about them and only 14% of those polled stated that they knew a fair amount about the drugs.
  • 7 in 10 parents of children aged 13 - 18 are unaware that their children could buy legal highs over the Internet.
  • 72% were unaware that they could be bought at festival stalls.
  • More than 8 in 10 84% parents were also oblivious to the fact that legal highs could be purchased in high street shops.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-08-30/86-of-parents-four-have-not-heard-of-legal-highs/
 
I would hope most parents have better things to do with their time than research the latest niche scourges of their children.

88% of parents polled were unaware that their son or daughter might drink drain cleaner. Talk to your kids about not drinking drain cleaner today.
 
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A survey of over 1,000 parents with children aged between 13 and 18 years of age has today revealed the lack of awareness parents have around the latest headline hitting concern that is legal highs.
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What I can't find is where these people live. I highly doubt the survey could have been done in America. There's no way that 86% of parents somewhere in America haven't even heard of "bath salts" or "spice". Now they may not know a damn thing about them except what the news tells them and probably less, but they have to at least heard about them.
 
sekio said:
I would hope most parents have better things to do with their time than research the latest niche scourges of their children.

88% of parents polled were unaware that their son or daughter might drink drain cleaner. Talk to your kids about not drinking drain cleaner today.
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I wonder where they get their figures.
 
" 3/4 of parents have never spoken to their children about legal highs. "

Perhaps said children have never even thought of buying RC chemicals down the local head shop?

This reminds of the time when that asshole Sigmund Freud told all children that they secretly wanted to fuck their mothers.
 
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