The situation with drug use among young people is sad.
During the last holidays, 15 teenagers were brought to the Children's Clinical University Hospital (BKUS) under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
"This year, most of the children, the vast majority of those who came to us in this week of the school holidays, were new patients for us, whom we had not met before. Last year, all the children who came to us, with the exception of one, were patients we knew: they come to us regularly, they use psychoactive substances," said the head of the BKUS children's mental health center, Karina Beinterta.
Moreover, there is no stereotypical "portrait" of a minor - among them there are completely different children, from two-parent and single-parent families.
The founder of Petah Radošais, Eddy Kalizis, shared that he periodically checks closed groups on social networks where young people communicate with each other.
"What I saw is really shocking. When in fact children who are just over ten years old compete to see who can snort the most amphetamine. It's scary. It's really scary," he said.