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On January 17th Mark Johnson wrote an article in the Guardian entitled "It's time to treat drug-addicted children as adults" although the article was itself about young people's rehab, the title does raise the issue of how we treat our young people when they access services. As those working in young people's drug treatment know, the outcomes the government look for are already those of adults.

But, is it reasonable or even achievable to use same outcome measures for young people and adults in the UK?

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