Charity Addaction are urging parents to take time out to ‘Have the Chat’ with their teenagers about drugs. “It’s totally normal to worry as a parent, but telling a teenager to ‘just say no’ isn’t helpful and is often counterproductive. Our advice is start the chat, keep talking, listen well, and don’t turn it into a big thing,” said Karen Tyrell, Director at Addaction. In a YouGov survey commissioned by Addaction, just 37% of British mums and 42% of dads with children aged 12 to 18 think there is enough…
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