Ex. 2. Fill in the correct prepositions where necessary.

According … a study last year in North-West, 95 per cent of a sample … young people convicted … criminal offences admitted … being or having been drug-users. That was seen as good evidence … a growing link … drugs and crime.

The experts predict that the number of addicts may reach … 500,000 … the end of the decade and the number of drug-related crime may go … …200,000.

An increase … the number of addicts shows that the measures taken … the government are not sufficient. The experts believe that more money should be spent … drug rehabilitation.

Drug use has increased … among young teens in the past five years. They think they are immune and can … their involvement to … drugs. That is a delusion – like trying to be a little pregnant. The earlier and more frequently an adolescent uses a … drug the more likely it is he will go on to the … drugs. This is surely an argument for more vigilance, not less. … would jeopardize a whole generation.

The … respond that if drugs were …, it would not increase the number of …, since anyone who wants a drug can get it now. This does not square with the facts. Drugs are not … at all. According to research, fewer than 50 per cent of high school seniors and young adults under 22 believe that they could … cocaine “fairly easily” or “very easily”. So, after …, you could double or triple the number of people who would have … to drugs and who would assuredly use them – exactly the history of alcohol when Prohibition ended.