Drug Education News

News and views from the Drug Education Forum

New Forum Website

DEFI’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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Jerry Jackson – Drugs

A satire of drug education from the BBC.

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Crazy Chemist Poster

Frank have produced a poster about legal highs.
They say:
This poster has been produced for you to use to inform people in your community. Please consider how you place this poster. It has been designed to target young people aged 18-24 and to feature in nightclubs and university environments. These substances tend not to be well used or known, so you will need to target an appropriate audience.

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links for 2010-02-05

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links for 2010-02-04

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links for 2010-01-30

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Drinking at Home

Some Dutch research into the vexed question of how parents approach young people and alcohol.
Parents who try to teach responsible drinking by letting their teenagers have alcohol at home may be well intentioned, but they may also be wrong, according to a new study in the latest issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs…
The researchers found that, in general, the more teens drank

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Should taking cannabis remain illegal?

The Drug Education Forum doesn’t tend to comment on the legal status of drugs, taking the view that all drugs have the potential for harm, and that young people should have an entitlement to drug education that tackles legal and illegal drugs.
But, I know that this is one of the issues that drug educators discuss with students.
In that context they may find the following graph of interest. 

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Children in Care Argue for More Drug Education

Ofsted have published a report, Getting advice, which has sought the views of childen in care.
The report says:
In our survey, we asked children to tell us, if they weren’t already getting all the advice they needed, exactly what else they needed advice or information about…
Some wrote particularly about advice and information on the dangers of drugs: ‘Drugs, even if they

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This blog tries to pick up relevant media and research stories about drug education. It mainly focuses on information in England as this is the geographical remit for the Drug Education Forum. We welcome comments that are on topic.

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