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Southland youth substance abuse problem is on par with the rest of the country but figures are trending down, a New Zealand Drug Foundation expert says.
National Youth Services advisor Ben Birks Ang, of Auckland, was in Invercargill on Monday running a seminar at the Lindisfarne Methodist Community Centre about how to reduce substance abuse in young people.
"Southland is similar to the rest of the country. Substance abuse is trending down," he said.
"But we need to work as a community to make changes."
The most common substances used were alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana, while less than 3 per cent of young people uwere sing harder substances, he said.
A 2012 nationwide study showed that about 11 per cent of people of secondary school age were using these substances at levels that would cause significant harm, Ang said.
"About two-thirds of [the 11 per cent] weren't worried, while the...
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