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		<title>Heroin is hard work. You don&#8217;t drift into it</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/heroin-is-hard-work-you-dont-drift-into-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Samuel writing in the Times argues that blaming celebrities for young people&#8217;s drug use doesn&#8217;t hold water:
It is a myth, the impressionability of teenagers where the deadliest drugs are concerned. Nobody becomes a casual heroin user. It is too much like hard work. It is the most determined act you will attempt all year.
I&#8217;m reminded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1695&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the bender? Stars embrace sobriety</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/the-end-of-the-bender-stars-embrace-sobriety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent wonder whether there&#8217;s a change of lifestyles amongst celebrities and highlights a number who don&#8217;t drink, or don&#8217;t do so in public.  They ask:
So are all these stars at the vanguard of a new post-alcohol era? Despite the widespread perception of a binge drinking culture in Britain, official statistics seem to suggest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1512&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrities are third biggest influence for girls</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/celebrities-are-third-biggest-influence-for-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children &#38; Young People Now
Celebrities came third in the Girlguiding UK poll, behind friends and family, as the biggest influence on girls and young women. The internet was voted the fourth biggest influence.
The woman with the greatest influence on girls was named as Victoria Beckham by 35 per cent of the 600 respondents aged between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1372&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cocaine overdose hospital admissions rise 400 per cent in just four years</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/cocaine-overdose-hospital-admissions-rise-400-per-cent-in-just-four-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 16:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mail pick up on figures that appear in Druglink about hospital admissions as a result of cocaine abuse.  Almost all of the contributors to the piece are sure that celebrities are acting as recruiting sergeants for the drug.  Here&#8217;s Mary Brett: 
&#8216;We were supposed to see cocaine use being targeted as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1327&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bloody Pete art attack fury</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/bloody-pete-art-attack-fury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Star have a story about an art exhibition which features works by Pete Doherty:
Drugs charities and the art world are disgusted he has been given the sick show while in London’s Wormwood Scrubs.
George Ruston, from drug education charity Hope UK, said: “Anything that glamorises drug use does not help and, for some young people, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1231&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lesson</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/the-lesson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Education Guardian takes a look at how teachers can approach the issue how celebrity culture affects young people.  Here are two of the exercises they suggest is:
Commission pupils to compose a piece of writing arguing either for or against the ATL&#8217;s motion &#8220;the cult of celebrity is perverting children&#8217;s aspirations&#8221;. Increasingly, celebrities find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1138&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re going to use celebrities in drug awareness campaigns</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/if-youre-going-to-use-celebrities-in-drug-awareness-campaigns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe these are the ones to go for.
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		<title>Druglink blog: Red carpet or red herring?</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/druglink-blog-red-carpet-or-red-herring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Druglink blog Harry Shapiro thinks about the role of celebrity in terms of cocaine use amongst young people:
 the charge remains that the pied-pipers of pop are leading our young people by the nose leaving a trail of death and devastation in their wake. So how do young respond? A group from Mentor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1110&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-users in Drug Education</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/silver-good-as-gold-as-dwain-chambers-plans-to-get-youngsters-on-the-right-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times says that Dwain Chambers is looking to try and prevent young people falling into the same traps he fell into:
The sprinter, making his second comeback to the Great Britain team after completing his drugs ban in 2005, said that he wants to keep running for his country and plans to set up an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1100&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN on Celebrity Drug Users</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/un-on-celebrity-drug-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A fair bit of reporting on the annual report from the International Narcotics Control Board which has taken celebrity drug taking as one of it&#8217;s themes.  When the Prime Minister spoke at the consultation event for the Children&#8217;s Plan this was a subject that he too raised as a concern. 
The Metro:
Celebrities who appear to escape justice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1088&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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