Drug Education News

From the Home Office’s monthly email:
This week [National Tackling Drugs Week] aims to increase public confidence in, and awareness of, the work being done locally to tackle drugs issues. It is a national platform on which local agencies can publicise the wide range of activity [...]

Eastwood Today
The latest round of students at Greasley Beauvale Junior School have completed the long-running tradition of completing a DARE awareness course.
More than 50 Year 6 pupils completed the 10-week course which teaches the youngsters of the problem associated with drugs, tobacco, alcohol and anti-social behaviour. It also includes sections on pride, self esteem and [...]

Lots of coverage of the new figures around teenage violent crime today, much of it focused on the increase in the number of girls involved and linking this to their drinking patterns.
Daily Mail
Teenage girls are responsible for more than 40 violent attacks every day, it emerged yesterday.
The so-called ladettes, many of whom have been drinking, [...]

The authors of the Nudge blog ask:
Why do bars serve peanuts and pretzels? It is because they are cheap? No. It is because they are salty, and salty foods make you thirsty. (Read the abstract of a paper about women, salty food, and alcohol here.) At the University of Chicago there is a [...]

Children & Young People Now:
Under-18s are buying materials such as alcohol, porn and violent videogames online, according to a survey of 1,000 13- to 17-year-olds by technology firm GB Group.
Turns out the GB Group have an interest in this as an “identity management company”. They say:
One in 20 (5%) 14 year olds [...]

Parentline Plus have a report that’s worth a look, Risky Behaviour and Setting Boundaries, which is the result of a survey and a number of focus groups with both parents and young people.  Issues around drugs and alcohol were very present amongst those taking part in the online survey:
The top three concerns of the parents [...]

The Campaign Company Blog tells us about how they’ve been engaging with parents:
If you give parents the right information AND you engage them in conversation about the issue then they WILL consent to their daughters having the vaccine. The only circumstances they would refuse would be if there were any doubts about the side-effects. [...]

Inspire Magazine:
Drug education charity Hope UK will launch its strategy to reach 500,000 children and young people each year by the end of 2011. This target will be achieved by recruiting another 800 voluntary Drug Educators to join the 206 already in Hope UK’s Programme.

At a workshop during the Health in School conference yesterday we got to hear first hand the research that led to a small spate of stories earlier this week.
Andrew Bengry-Howell talked about the views that the 18-25 year olds he and his fellow researchers have been talking to have about alcohol and intoxication.
I’m going to [...]

I’m afraid that time is short, so I’ll just point you in the direction of a few stories that may be of interest
BBC NEWS - Parents lacking skills - Grayling
“In too many parts of our society responsible parenting and good parenting experience is disappearing,” Mr Grayling said.
“I think many parts of our society no longer [...]