{"id":79947,"date":"2025-09-27T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79947"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:14:20","slug":"children-as-young-as-13-are-leading-violent-county-lines-drug-gangs-across-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/27\/children-as-young-as-13-are-leading-violent-county-lines-drug-gangs-across-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Children as young as 13 are leading violent county lines drug gangs across Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1NppLh.img?w=534&amp;h=401&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Syringe and colorful pills forming a background for pharmaceutical concept\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children as young as 13 are running violent county lines drug gangs across Britain as school exclusions and vanishing &#8220;ghost pupils&#8221; fuel an explosion in exploitation an expert has warned.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/children-as-young-as-13-are-leading-violent-county-lines-drug-gangs-across-britain\/ar-AA1NpkYc?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68d7b4feb2114e99a7ca2ad0ef72ca0c&amp;ei=12\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children as young as 13 are running violent county lines drug gangs across Britain as school exclusions and vanishing &#8220;ghost pupils&#8221; fuel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Drugs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79948,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79947\/revisions\/79948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}