Tom - most addicts become addicts because some piece of slime pushed drugs on them in the first place. No suppliers, a lot less addicts and, quite often these days, the blame cannot be laid at the door of the parents, or anyone else but the dealers.

Unfortunately drugs seem to have become the new cigarettes - it is seen as being 'cool' to try them and peer pressure can be a mighty hard thing to resist for a lot of youngsters. The dirt out there that pushes this stuff is almost solely to blame for the present situation.

SJ - so sorry to hear that you son is a victim of this trade. As a parent and grandparent I shudder to think of the dangers that beset these children now.