Drug Education News

Here’s the draft guidance that NICE are considering around mass-media and point-of-sales measures to prevent the uptake of smoking by children and young people:
Develop and deliver a national, regional or local mass-media campaign to prevent the uptake of smoking among young people aged under 18, for example, by reducing the attractiveness of tobacco and generally [...]

Not too many details as yet, but there are two that may be of interest to readers of this blog:

Alcohol use disorders in adults and adolescents
Guidance relating to the prevention and early identification of alcohol use disorders in adults and adolescents
Looked after children
Guidance on looked after children

As a reminder here’s the presentation the Forum had [...]

The Telegraph report on the evidence submitted by the National Association of Head Teachers (a Forum member), to a select committee inquiry into whether the National Curriculum is “fit for purpose”:
A range of school subjects could be swept away under new teaching proposals.
The attack on the National Curriculum, which has dictated school timetables for [...]

The Guardian has a piece suggesting the NUS are trying to change the way their members are seen in relation to alcohol:
The National Union of Students will call this week for a campaign to promote ‘responsible drinking’ on campuses across the country, in a motion to be put forward at its annual conference .
Students in [...]

The Publican has an interview with the Conservative leader where he touches on what a government he leads would do about binge drinking:
“What we want is a continental social drinking culture,” he says. “But you don’t get there just by changing the law, or increasing taxes, you get there by a big cultural change.
“It’s about [...]

Alcohol Policy UK bring my attention to the Hub of Commissioned Alcohol Projects and Policies (HubCAPP) a new Alcohol Concern managed website.  Their remit is as:
an online resource of local alcohol initiatives throughout England. The Hub has [...]

There’s a new report out about young people’s drinking, Risky drinking in North West school children and its consequences: A study of fifteen and sixteen year olds, produced by the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University.
The report makes it clear just how much young people are drinking in that region and [...]

A couple of weeks ago I met up with Lovisa Liyanage, the assistant co-ordinator of Hope UK’s Voluntary Educator Training Programme, I’ve typed up my notes and thought they might be of wider interest.
For those not familiar with Hope UK, they’re a Christian drug education charity that grew out of the temperance movement, and [...]

The Telegraph:
Teachers should be able to search pupils for alcohol, drugs and stolen goods, Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, said yesterday.
At the moment staff must call in the police to carry out a search if they suspect pupils of carrying drink or drugs. Only if they believe the child is in possession of a [...]

The Daily Mail:
Youngsters are to be given a stronger warning on the dangers of cannabis following a U-turn in the Home Office.
It is to scrap guidance that cannabis should be avoided by those who already suffer mental health problems.
Instead, young people will be warned that “anyone who uses cannabis could be doing so at [...]