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		<title>Cocaine study that got up the nose of the US</title>
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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>Class A lesson in the war against drugs</title>
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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>The impact of positive and negative ecstasy-related information on ecstasy use among college students: Results of a longitudinal study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m grateful to Ben for sending me the link to an abstract of some American research looking at the impact of messages around ecstasy on college age students.
The study found:
Individuals who had heard a greater number of negative messages were significantly more likely to use ecstasy, even controlling for positive messages, prior ecstasy use, peer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2098&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Position Statement on Shock Tactics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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The Hertfordshire Drug Education Forum has been developing a position statement on shock tactics in drug education which some readers may find useful.
The Hertfordshire Drug Education Forum (DEF) does not support drug education that is purely based upon &#8217;shock&#8217; tactics; one-off lessons; or teaching methods which aim to engender fear as an effective means of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2046&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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