Is this worse than what many states in the USA have? Where children at the age of 13 can obtain prescription drugs without parental consent, and now we have kids popping psychotropics, puberty blockers, opiates and other goodies handed out freely to them by the obliging medical community.
Unless you have a teenager, you have no idea how big a problem this has become. The kids use social media to clue each other in on what to say, how to act, which doctors are accommodating, how to hide it from parents, etc. Then the doctors bill the CHIPS program for it and no one is the wiser.
Is it any wonder that this generation is the most self-abusive, with lower self-esteem than any generation in US history?