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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9 February, 2010 • 11:06 am
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Comatose teenagers line every gutter in the boozy Britain of popular imagination. Yet after a long period of increase, there are tentative signs that Britons are drinking less alcohol.
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A project that aims to promote positive activities has launched an application that delivers information to young people on social networking sites.
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The dangers to young people of a legal high known as “meow meow” have been highlighted by the Government’s new drugs adviser. Professor Les Iversen said the speed at which the drug, officially called mephedrone, had become popular was “quite scary”.
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The latest figures from the British Crime Survey, published by the Home Office, estimate 23,000 young men between the ages of 16 and 24 have used steroids.
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6 February, 2010 • 4:19 pm
A satire of drug education from the BBC.
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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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5 February, 2010 • 11:05 am
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The Economist argues that people buy into Broken Britain because their "ideas about the state of society are simply inaccurate", and points out that drinking, smoking and drug use by young people appear to be declining.
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More than two-thirds of parents find parenting frustrating most or some of the time, according to a government study.
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The number of children admitted to hospital with drug poisoning has fallen to its lowest level in four years, new figures show.
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Students are being warned about the dangers of consuming plant food after seven young people were arrested at a Lancaster nightclub.
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THE teenagers involved in a drugs scare in East Yorkshire will face public exposure today when they are ordered to tell their classmates about their ordeal.
Two Sixth Form students were excluded from Woldgate College in Pocklington earlier this month, after one of them took the “legal high” drug mephedrone and collapsed.
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29 January, 2010 • 4:47 pm
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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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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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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