The DCSF have published a review of the impact of drinking on young people. These are the risk and protective factors the authors identify which are associated with alcohol misuse by children and young people.
Risk Factors
Protective Factors
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Youth and the schools population – EMCDDA.
EMCDDA have made the figures from the last school survey about drug use available on their website; from which comes the above table.
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A Cup of Chocolate.
This video isn’t exactly aimed at children and young people, but it’s an interesting take on talking about addiction from the Cumbria Users Project.
More on how it was developed in Drink and Drugs News.
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Drug Test Your Kids? (2).
The News of the World follows it’s sister paper the Times in reporting the marketing (presumably largely via mentions in newspapers) of drug testing kits to parents.
They do a classic balancing act by getting one person to set out the case for and another to argue against their use.
Setting out the case for drug testing your children is the paper’s agony aunt, Jane Butterworth:
I don’t
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World Drug Report 2009.
The UNODC have published their World Drug Report for this year and while I can’t claim to have read each of the 300+ pages I have been searching through for things that might be of interest to this audience.
Here’s a slideshow with what I found:
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