Drug Education News

Reacting to Gordon Brown’s comments that drug education in primary schools should be central to the next drug strategy, Eric Carlin, Chair of the Drug Education Forum, said:
We welcome what Gordon Brown is saying about the importance of drug education in primary schools.  Children, even young children, need to understand about the potential harm that [...]

Mansfield Chad News has a story about how the local DAAT has been out promoting what they do as part of National Tackling Drugs Day:

DRUGS workers have been out and about across the area helping to spread the message about the dangers of drug abuse.
Members of the Nottinghamshire County Drug and Alcohol Action Team [...]

The BBC suggest that incoming Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, wants to see drug education starting in primary schools.
Drugs education schemes should start at primary school as part of an overhaul of Britain’s drugs strategy, Gordon Brown is to say.
And more role models are needed to raise awareness of drug use, which is still “unacceptably high”, [...]

The BBC have news about DARE (a Forum member):
A pioneering Nottinghamshire drugs awareness charity which faced serious financial problems has been saved.
Problems began for DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) when it lost its £165,000 annual grant from Nottinghamshire Police.
Managers said the project faced a “bleak future”.But the charity has secured new funding from other sponsors [...]

As you know the government use National Healthy School status as an indicator in the delivery of the drug strategy. So this question and answer may be of interest:
Don Foster (Bath, Liberal Democrat): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills

if he will place in the Library a copy of the PA [...]

The Sun like other media outlets have the story about the proportion of young people that make up those drink driving:

YOUNG people are increasingly risking lives by drinking and driving, it has been revealed.
Scotland Yard has revealed almost a quarter of all offenders and casualties in London were aged between 17 and 24.
And a BBC [...]

The Guardian’s Mortarboard:

Last-minute revision notes? Check. Spare ink cartridges? Check. Lucky mascot? Check. 250mg of amphetamines? Check.
It’s not as an unlikely scenario as it might seem. Paul Cooper, education professor from the University of Leicester, is saying that as more people are getting used to being prescribed drugs such as Prozac or Ritalin - or [...]

The Voice has a piece about children’s social care and how BME communities are served.  It includes the following quote from Cathy Ashley, chief executive of the Family Rights Group, which seems pertinent to thinking about Hidden Harm and the agenda for schools and other services that may be noticing problems within families:
“Many families who [...]

The FA explain how they run their doping control programme which they say runs:
parallel with an extensive drug education and awareness programme, aimed primarily at youngsters and operated in co-ordination with the Premier League, Football League and PFA. Every player registered with a club in English football from the age of 9-18 receives a [...]

Anthony Seldon, of Wellington College, is in the Daily Telegraph writing about the well-being classes his school offers pupils.
He says:
Lessons are centred on the development of personal responsibility by each child. Pupils learn how to manage their own bodies, minds and emotions, and how to rely on themselves, rather than on other people or drugs, [...]