I’ve been working on a new website for the Drug Education Forum which I hope you’ll want to go and take a look at.
As you’ll immediately see the new site includes video that we shot asking young people to talk about their sense of the value of drug education as well as other resources that we’ve produced over the last few years.
The idea is that we’ll also integrate this blog into the main site which will I hope will make the rest of our site more accessible.
Anyway I’m hoping you’ll like the site and if you have any feedback you’ll let me know.
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Mike Ashton has been kind enough to alert me to another paper that he thinks could interest this audience.
This one looks at the Family Check-Up intervention, which as the abstract to the paper points out is a "selected intervention model that can be delivered in contexts such as schools that serve at-risk children and families."
It aims to influence risk factors which are associated
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We’ve been interested in social norms education for a while now, so this paper, from the Cochrane Collaboration, on the impact of campaigns directed at university students drinking is very interesting.
In their ‘plain language’ summary the authors say:
This systematic review was based on 22 controlled trials involving 7275 college or university students randomly assigned to the social norms
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The Times has a story about a drug testing kit that appears to be being marketed at parents.
The paper allows Martin Barnes from DrugScope to make the case against testing:
"Many parents are understandably anxious about drugs, but it is important to be informed, remain calm and keep communication open if they suspect a child is using them.
"Parents need to build up a degree of trust
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NIDA, the National Institute for Drug Abuse in the USA have produced a guide for parents, educators and community organisations interested in preventing drug problems in young people.
The whole thing is worth looking at but I thought I’d focus on the principles they enumerate, each of which is sourced back in the pamphlet to the research which they’re drawn from.
Prevention
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As regular readers will know while the normal geographical remit for the Drug Education Forum is England we like to keep an eye on what’s going on internationally. So I was interested to see what the Advisory Committee on Drugs Policy in the Netherlands has been saying about drug policy in that country.
Amongst the policy recommendations they make to the Minister of Health there is a call to
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Children and Young People Now have been asking youth workers about their thoughts about the plans to extend youth provision to the weekends.
The magazine reports that 69 per cent thought that it would be possible to increase the number of weekend activities for young people. They also found that 46 per cent of respondents reported that young people had asked for more facilities to be
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Research into the Young People’s Development Programme, which aimed to reduce teenage pregnancy and substance misuse amongst vulnerable young people aged 13-15 concludes:
No evidence was found that the intervention was effective in delaying heterosexual experience or reducing pregnancies, drunkenness, or cannabis use. Some results suggested an adverse effect. Although methodological
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