Drug Education News

The Home Office recently had this to say about how the government are delivering on the drug strategy as if impacts on young people:
The Young People and Drugs Delivery Plan - Serious drug use by young people has stabilised over the last few years but a real downward shift has still to be achieved. To [...]

The Daily Mail report the findings from a survey about young people’s drug use:
Doctors have seen children as young as seven suffering from the effects of drug or alcohol abuse, according to a new survey.
And more than four in ten doctors believe the number of children and teenagers with drug and alcohol problems is increasing. [...]

Skills for Health are asking whether there should be a level 4 DANOS qualification for the field and if so, what it should contain.

The Observer have reported that the government are considering raising the age at which young people could legally buy tobacco:

The minimum age at which people can buy cigarettes is to be raised from 16 to 18 years under plans being considered by the government. Department of Health sources have told The Observer that there is [...]

The Telegraph reports that it is unlikely that PHSE will become statutory despite a (as yet unpublished) report from the independent advisory group on sexual health calling for the change. The Telegraph report a spokesman for the Department for Education as saying:
‘We don’t comment on leaked reports but there are no plans to change our [...]

24dash.com report from South Gloustershire:
Youngsters will be helping to shape drug education classes across their county at a special conference next week. As well as finding out about the effects of drugs, students will give feedback on the day.
Sixty students aged between 14 and 15 years old will take part in DR-ED 05, a drugs [...]

Drink and Drug News looks at a research project which asked young people about their attitudes to drugs and alcohol:
The majority of nine to 12 year olds thought that it was wrong to use any illegal drugs and had a good knowledge of the negative impacts of drug use. Although 13 to 18 year olds [...]

The Daily Mail highlights a campaign from Frank:
A campaign aimed at dispelling the myths about drugs has been launched to put young people and parents in the picture. Popular false beliefs include claims that smoking banana skins makes you high and cannabis cleans the lungs, campaigners said.

The Guardian has an interview with the Chief Executive of the Youth Justice Board, who would like to see:
specialised units developed in existing young offenders’ institutions for 200 to 300 older boys who have mental health, drug, literacy and other problems and would benefit from more intensive staff support than can be provided by the [...]

The Guardian starts a piece on teenagers with the assumption (as I read it) that they are taking more drugs:
Rarely has life been more difficult to be a teenager. While childhood continues to shrink (earlier sexualisation, commercialisation, more alcohol and drugs), dependency has lengthened as gap years and higher education delay fulltime work.
But, another article, [...]