Radio Times

Review by:

Jane Anderson

“I have a spliff before I come into school because it makes me chilled out,” is, apparently, not a rare thing for young people to tell their teachers. This intricately researched and carefully balanced documentary follows a 12-year-old boy whose cannabis use is so out of control that he would be in custody were it not for a new family therapy and home drug-testing programme.

About this programme

1/2. The first of a two-part documentary charting the progress of a 12-year-old cannabis user who is one of the first youngsters in Britain to be given intensive family therapy, coupled with home drug-testing, as an alternative to custody. The programme explores the role of therapist Amanda Singh in the teenager's rehabilitation.

Cast and crew

Crew

Producer

Sue Mitchell

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