article_snippet.sent: Kate Lawrence, of drug charity Phoenix Futures, told the paper’s Grant Rollings that the findings were unsurprising, adding that many older people turn to drugs to combat loneliness, or to socialise.
article_snippet.sent: Kate Lawrence said: 'We assume older people don't want to go out and socialise, but older people do, particularly if older people are lonely.
article_snippet.sent: Loneliness is a massive trigger for drugs. '
article_snippet.sent: The older generation isn't so well informed because we have concentrated on warning young people about drugs.
article_snippet.sent: The dramatic rise is being blamed on those who first experimented with drugs during the 1960s, and have continued to use those who first experimented with drugs during the 1960s on and off over the subsequent decades.