Drug Education News

The Times Educational Supplement takes a look at Crystal meth:

Once it was heroin, then crack cocaine. Now crystal meth seems to have taken on the dubious mantle of being “the most dangerous drug”.

The Drug Education Forum is given as a point of advice and resources for drug education.

Hansard records a question from Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, about the Blueprint project:
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent on the Blueprint project in each of the last three years.
Mr. Charles Clarke: Expenditure on the Blueprint drug education research programme is shown in the [...]

For anyone interested in race and drugs The Race and Drugs’s Project looks like it might provide some good pointers for thinking things through. They say:
The Project was established in 1995 in response to the fact that the provision of prevention, care and treatment services for black and other visible minorities had been a [...]

The Observer has a substantial piece about cannabis, these are some of the points that seem relevant to the Drug Education Forum:
Next month, the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse is launching its Young People’s Effectiveness Strategy for under 18s. Professionals say it is impossible for the strategy to encompass excessive cannabis use because so [...]

The NCB (a Drug Education Forum member) have a briefing on whole school aproaches to PSHE and Citizenship education:
Children and young people need support in developing emotionally and socially so they are able to use their thoughts and feelings to guide their behaviour positively and develop personal awareness, emotional resilience and social skills. This will [...]

The Telegraph look at ways of giving up smoking:
About 70 per cent of smokers want to give up. And the reasons are obvious. As well as improving your health - one year after stopping, the risk of having a heart attack drops by 50 per cent, and the risk of cancer falls every year of [...]

Drug Policy Alliance, an American organisation, which is against drug testing in schools carries an article from a mother who thought that drug testing was going to be the “silver bullet” which would stop her children having problems with drugs:
“About fifteen years ago when my second son was attending Valhalla High School in El [...]

The BBC along with all media cover the decision by MPs to ban smoking from pubs and clubs:
MPs voted on Tuesday by a margin of 200 votes to impose a ban on smoking in all enclosed public spaces, despite months of wrangling over the issue.
Opponents say the ban is an infringement of civil liberties.
The Drug [...]

Drink and Drugs News has an interview with George Ruston, the Chief Executive of Hope UK (a Drug Education Forum Member):
He describes Hope UK as a ‘tier zero’ organisation, ‘because it’s actually working with people where there isn’t a problem’. Their work ‘does not hit the government’s priority button particularly’, he says – but [...]

The BMJ looks at a House of Lords report which has been examining the medical testing of drugs which are given to children:
Half of the drugs used in the European Union to treat children and 90% of drugs given to newborn babies have never been tested or authorised for use in these age groups, warns [...]