New estimates of the number of children living with substance misusing parents: results from UK national household surveys
Open Access
- 8 October 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 9 (1) , 377
Abstract
The existing estimates of there being 250,000 - 350,000 children of problem drug users in the UK (ACMD, 2003) and 780,000 - 1.3 million children of adults with an alcohol problem (AHRSE, 2004) are extrapolations of treatment data alone or estimates from other countries, hence updated, local and broader estimates are needed.Keywords
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