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	<title>Drug Education News &#187; drug education</title>
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		<title>World Anti-Doping Agency on drug education</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/world-anti-doping-agency-on-drug-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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The Bucks Free Press have an interview with Tony Copsey about the work he&#8217;s doing around drug misuse in rugby for the World Anti-Doping Agency.  He says:
“Where we’re coming from it is keeping that deterrent of more testing and more banning if required, but also up-front education and support because there is a lot of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2927&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You never see pictures of nice people having a nice drink and not getting hammered.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/you-never-see-pictures-of-nice-people-having-a-nice-drink-and-not-getting-hammered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian has a story about what young people think about the way they&#8217;re portrayed in the media in relation to alcohol.  Understandably they don&#8217;t always recognise themselves in the papers. but it appears they do have concerns about how alcohol is being used by their peers and parents:
While the majority feel that media portrayals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2908&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cocaine study that got up the nose of the US</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/cocaine-study-that-got-up-the-nose-of-the-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, of Bad Science fame, writes about drugs this week and in discussing the World Health Organisation&#8217;s study of global cocaine use (which he says was never published) he quotes the following passage about fear based messages about the drug:
Despite a broad range of educational and prevention approaches, most programmes do not prevent myths, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2898&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does this sound familiar?</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/does-this-sound-familiar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report into drug education found:

Support services were crucial for school and teachers that find it difficult to implement SPHE.
There is little engagement with parents in the planning and development of the programme.
Curriculum overload, timetable pressures and lack of status for SPHE affect its provision in schools.

The survey was carried out in Ireland as part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2836&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding physical development, health and wellbeing</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/understanding-physical-development-health-and-wellbeing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 13:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rose review of the primary curriculum has a paper looking in depth at the aspects of learning associated with understanding physical development, health and wellbeing, the part of the curriculum in which drug education will be focused.
.
It argues that this is important because: 
To enjoy healthy, active and fulfilling lives, children must learn to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2660&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exposure to Substance Use Prevention Messages and Substance Use among American Adolescents: 2002 to 2007</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/exposure-to-substance-use-prevention-messages-and-substance-use-among-american-adolescents-2002-to-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Government has published a report on their analysis of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.  They argue:
Gaining a better understanding of how many and which types of adolescents receive prevention messages and programs through each of the many potential sources is essential for the development of effective prevention programming.
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		<title>Class A lesson in the war against drugs</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/class-a-lesson-in-the-war-against-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times has a story about the Manchester Coroner, Nigel Meadows, who tells them:
Drug education doesn&#8217;t seem to be working.
By which he appears to mean that 2007 there&#8217;s was a 3 per cent rise in drug related deaths in England and Wales over the previous year.
Leaving aside the question of whether it&#8217;s appropriate to ask [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2416&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Response to Kathy Gyngell</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/in-response-to-kathy-gyngell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Gyngell, chair of the group that wrote Addicted Britain and the addictions chapter of Breakthrough Britain for the Conservative Party&#8217;s Social Justice Commission, argues that the government&#8217;s approach to drug education is wrong.
Here&#8217;s part of the response I&#8217;ve left on her blog:
From my perspective there is now the some evidence for what an effective [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2371&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannabis: Throwing the first stone</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/cannabis-throwing-the-first-stone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Rolles, of Transform, writes in The Journal, a paper aimed at students in Edinburgh, writes about drug education:
The problem with drugs education historically, and the cannabis issue in particular, is that it has evolved in the context of a highly emotive public debate, with the drugs issue subsumed within law and order populism, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2295&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug education In America, lessons learned</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/drug-education-in-america-lessons-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting piece in the Economist about drug education in America.
Like in the UK the focus of much drug education is on 11 to 14 year olds:
The principle is that children should be reached while they are still fairly pliable and before they begin to take drugs—not just the hard stuff but alcohol, marijuana and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2286&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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