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		<title>Does this sound familiar?</title>
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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>Australian alcohol guidelines</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/australian-alcohol-guidelines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we wait for the Chief Medical Officer&#8217;s (CMO) guidance to parents and young people about alcohol to be finalised it might be useful to compare his putative 5 messages against what is in the new Australian alcohol guidelines.
The CMO&#8217;s advice boils down to:

an alcohol-free childhood is the healthiest and best option – if children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2833&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assessing Changes in Global Drug Problems, 1998-2007</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/assessing-changes-in-global-drug-problems-1998-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rand Corporation have published an assessment of global drug policy.
Included in their assessment is a section on prevention. They note that rehetoric about prevention is increasingly prominent in drug policy (citing the UK&#8217;s drug strategy as a case in point), but say that spending isn&#8217;t necessarily following.  They say:
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		<title>Building on Our Strengths: Canadian Standards for School-based Substance Abuse Prevention</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/building-on-our-strengths-canadian-standards-for-school-based-substance-abuse-prevention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I saw that the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse had published a set of standards for school based drug prevention.
As my colleague at Mentor UK is in the process of thinking through how something similar &#8211; although not exclusively school based &#8211; might work in the UK I thought I&#8217;d ask her a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2768&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Print Media to Motivate College Students to Visit a Website about Sensible Alcohol Use</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/using-print-media-to-motivate-college-students-to-visit-a-website-about-sensible-alcohol-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 10:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the SHEU, this piece of Dutch research takes a look at using print adverts to get college students to access an alcohol awareness website.
The authors argue:
Whether mass media health education campaigns have any direct effects on health behavior is often a topic of debate. In most studies no direct effects are found (Derzon &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2764&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UNODC Podcasts</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/unodc-podcasts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 09:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UNODC have a number of (substance specific) podcasts on their World Drug Campaign website.
The introductory file explains the concept, which is to put questions from teenagers to experts.


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		<title>Drugs, Harm Reduction and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/drugs-harm-reduction-and-the-un-convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Harm Reduction Association and Youth Rise have been doing some research into young people and drugs in the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and have produced a paper.
Information came back from Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Romania, Rwanda, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam.
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		<title>Adolescent&#8217;s perceptions and expectations of parental action on children&#8217;s smoking and snus use</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/adolescents-perceptions-and-expectations-of-parental-action-on-childrens-smoking-and-snus-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s part of an abstract of Swedish research published in BMC Public Health.
Adolescent smoking in Sweden has decreased and the proportion who never tried smoking has increased. The results of this study show that a growing majority of adolescents support strong parental intervention to help them refrain from tobacco, but preferably not in a punitive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2481&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the deal on quitting cannabis?</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/what%e2%80%99s-the-deal-on-quitting-cannabis/</link>
		<comments>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/what%e2%80%99s-the-deal-on-quitting-cannabis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Drug World News I&#8217;ve come across an Australian resource for those trying to reduce or quit their use of cannabis.
It&#8217;s not aimed at young people specifically, as far as I can tell, but given that cannabis remains the most widely used illegal drug in the UK and the substance that most young people are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2463&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation to VNGOC Policy Forum</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/presentation-to-vngoc-policy-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked to make a presentation to the Vienna NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs as part of a session they had on good practice in cyberspace, which I did yesterday.
As you&#8217;ll see from the slides below my talk was about this blog and the Forum&#8217;s website and I then went on to make some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2353&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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