Drugs in Waterloo Road

Series 1 episode 5
Broadcast 06/04/06 on BBC1 at 8pm

Zak is seen with a pharmacy bag emptying pills into it before throwing away the jar/pot. Because he's late and has no homework his teacher, Grantly Budgen, mocked him with animal noises and said he must've been "too busy smoking crack" .

There were prominently displayed 'Talk To Frank' posters in the young offenders phone area.

Budgen says later "if you ask me, he's [Zak] a little junkie"

Zak shows symptoms of drug abuse - he's sniffing and wiping his nose - which leads staff to suggest he's abusing solvents.

When Zak runs off from the 'cooler' the staff assume he's "gone for a fix" and they'd have to "crawl all the neighbouring crack dens" to find him. It is interesting how only the staff mention drugs explicitly and see them as a problem yet don't appear to want to provide help for Zak.