Linda, it's highly unlikely that a complete stranger would offer you drugs!

I know from the youngsters I've worked with that drugs are far more popular than alcohol with some - they're cheaper, for a start, and the effects last longer.

The common Friday evening cocktail used to be Temazepam, Viagra and cocaine, topped up with a couple of Es over the evening. The kids would get the same effect as if they'd drunk eight pints of snakebite or necked the best part of a bottle of vodka, but for less money.

Es and Viagra can be had for less than a fiver each, and Mazzies for pennies. A gramme of cocaine can now be had in the South East for £50. Ten years ago it was £75. That gramme will provide maybe 10 lines - working out at £5 a line.

Ingest that lot and you'll want to pick a fight with a phone box. A couple of drinks on top and, boy, you're trouble on legs. Scary, eh?