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enjoyed the view research entrusted to them by the Institute of Alcohol Studies .

Part of the report looks at the effectiveness of policy in reducing harm.

Eric Carlin, chairman of the Drug Education Forum, said government € ™ s alcohol policy said:

The government € ™ s focus on young people as part of the alcohol strategy is welcome. But we regret that there is more public consultation on what the strategy says.

We know that many young people are concerned about alcohol and don

Goodenough Drug Strategy Project is an initiative of the London Drug Policy Forum.

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Mladi Now withstand the smoke-free. They quote a spokeswoman for NR:

Health as not necessarily the best way to disseminate the message, though: “Young people think they are going to live forever, they are 13, she ” says.”Young women may think that models smoke to stay thin. It is more important to stress that smoking is the worst thing you can do for your skin and makes your breath smell.”

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DfES guidance on exercises isnbsp;welcome .

Guardian have a look at new guidelines on the class discussion:

What is the point at which it exercises only a few kids ever participate? Organizing the discussion area, where the teaching profession itself has appeared as a creative, as claimed. We come to the time the goods time after time. The existence of paired discussion, trios, talking in groups, Jigsaws, pairs fours, professional groups, the argument of tunnels, verbal tennis or any other fantastic techniques available to the teacher in front of the class and give all students a forum in which to express and develop their oracy skills. These techniques actually promote independent learning and adopting a teacher from the front side of him both the potential for being abused, and from the position of being the only source of knowledge in the room. There is really no reason, other than lack of preparation time, laziness or fear of noise for any teacher to bother with leading a “hands-up half-hour”.

This is aplicable to PSHE and drug education as any other subject.

As we found when doing the work on Positive Guidance on Aspects of Personal, Social and Health Education there a number of ways that teachers can actively engage their pupils in learning, which we hope contributes to effective drug education.

Dfes guidance on class discussions is welcome

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Mentor UK bile objavljene Report in coastal and ex-mining Area’s project has been running the last three years.

The project worked with 12 pilot programs have made a good showing different approaches to drug prevention in small communities across England.

Speaking on the publication of reports Eric Carlin, Executive Director of Mentor UK said :

Marcel Berlins v The Guardian :

I have nothing against don’t schoolchildren were told of the effects of excessive alcohol consumption, assuming that the lessons are fairly and responsibly –, but you can bet it won’t be. Children will be informed in a manner that is likely to do more drinking than less, attractive.

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Alcoholnbsp;Strategy .

The government launched Safe. Sensible. Social.; next steps in the national strategy on alcohol . I’ve skimmed through it to see what might be of interest to us, but warn that it is only the first skim and could be missing pieces.

This strategy says the government will:

increase its focus on minority of drinkers who cause or experience the most harm to themselves, their communities and their families. These are:

-Young people under 18 drink alcohol, many of whom we now know is drinking more than their counterparts did a decade and ago;
-18A € “24-year-old binge drinkers, a minority of them are responsible for most alcohol-related crime and disorder in the night-time economy

They also talk about the harmful drinkers if their drinking can cause damage to others (presumably including children).

The Guardian have a bit of freelance contributors to the school. Two of them are of direct interest to us. First Bobby Cummines, CEO National Association of Free Reformed offenders. Paper says its approach to communicating with students about crime:

“I Ask who wants to be a drug dealer and they say yes. So I link it and say: we’ve got to send a message to these people so that they have to shoot in the foot?

“I It’s tell them people like them, doing small deals, which are used as an example for the larger guys, so it is more likely to be victims of violent crime than the big guy. And if you can’t, the message is sent within the family. They say: if I have a knife, people won’t to me. But I tell them, well, you knife; don’t I know if you’re going to use it, so I had a gun and shoot you.”

Then Darren Gold of the reach of the team leader of Drugline. Darren is a recovering heroin addict says:

“I Go to school and deliver customized training programs suitable for year 5 to year 13, ” says. “We Basic program around a specific age group, so if you see we’re years, 5 or 6, we don’t talk about heroin and crack, but look at the pressure and the transition and how you might feel left out or uncomfortable.

If it’s older age group, we talk more about illegal drugs and side effects. It’s basically giving them all the information they need from someone who was there, and experienced it…

“They Use hear stories. They get to hear any more stories from real life than from books or listening to their teachers belong to what may happen and what may happen. The fact that they receive from us realism.”

There is also a quotation from the PSHE coordinator in the School of Redbridge, who says:

“Darren Really useful because it provides a real life story, ” she says. “I I think that kids really respond to it and is shocked by the stories Darren’s. Children are asked to all. They’re very interesting to hear what impact the drugs that his experience. He often talks about how he threw drugs.”

DfES guidance in schools is quite clear that children “shocking” isn’t to drug education. In addition, reliable enough that he speaks of external actors, in particular, ex-users:

The involvement of former drug education should be considered cautiously by virtue of their status as a former user.

The QCA in their description of what effective drug education looks like don’t mention trying to “shock” pupils either. Instead they suggest that teachers should be looking to ensure the following:

Knowledge

-of long-term physical and psychological effects of drug, alcohol and tobacco use;

- of short-term effects.

Attitudes

-feedback from school surveys on drug norms;

-correction of the perception of universal drug use;

-consideration of media and social influences that lead to use.

Interpersonal skills

- refusal;

-assertiveness;

-communication;

-safety.

Intrapersonal and interpersonal skills

- building self-esteem;

-coping skills;

-stress reduction techniques;

-goal-setting;

-decision-making/problem-solving.

Delivery

-participatory;

-inclusive;

-structured activity to promote peer interaction;

-practice in drug refusal skills;

-role-plays that are pupil generated;

-sufficient practice time;

-peer modelling of appropriate behaviour;

-supportive comments from the group.

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Conservative Home a complete list of 188 recommendations that have left the political work of justice, social policy of the Commission.

Here are 48 that come from Dependencies paper :

Policy proposals we suggest are based on three principles:

reform treatment – breaking the cycle of dependency and devolution of responsibilities, addressing addiction (including alcohol dependence) and investing in abstinence-based recovery programs
-The prevention of damage – to promote public health and control the consumption of alcohol and drugs through prices.
-Protecting children – in front of parental substance abuse, understanding that children are affected by parental addiction and cannabis deal.

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An integrated drug treatment redefine politics in terms of dependence, which covers alcohol and drugs, a policy goal lead to abstinence.the existing Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. (Section 3.1.4)
A review of the Misuse of Drugs Act and associated penalties is proposed to be undertaken by the new Addiction Advisory Council. (Section 3.1.5)
Local Addiction Action Centres, staffed in proportion to local known needs /estimates of problem drug and alcohol users in the area and led by an Addiction Action Coordinator, a former residential or day care drugs CEO/counsellor or addiction psychiatrist, to replace Drugs Action Teams. (Section 3.1.6)
We propose to fund all treatment by abstinence based treatment vouchers. (Section 3.1.7)
One Stop Shops, to provide both the start and continuity through the treatment journey. (Section 3.1.7)
Methadone to be prescribed in the context of ‘change programmes’, as a stepping stone for clients to abstinence. The pharmacy system of dispensing to be discontinued. (Section 3.2)
We recommend that GP’s and DAT Treatment Managers review their patients on methadone and make every effort to offer alternative routes to recovery and treatment. (Section 3.2)
We propose the immediate abandonment of the meaningless and corrupting treatment targets set by the current administration and move towards a system which is needs led and monitored and measured in terms of real outcomes – including abstinence or reduction of substance use, improved mental health and social functioning and motivation. (Section 3.2.1)
Structured Abstinence Based Day Care Expansion supported by treatment voucher. Such services would no longer be subject to commissioning vagaries but to their own outcomes success. (Section 3.2.2)
Residential detoxification and rehabilitation to expand to more realistic levels funded by treatment vouchers. (Section 3.2.3)
Rapid expansion of secondary residential care and dry sheltered accommodation for former offenders who have completed first stage rehabilitation programmes in prisons. (Section 3.2.3)
Support for faith based communities It is of note that some of the most successful and enduring residential rehabilitation centres are faith based, like Yeldall Manor, Victory Outreach and Betel. (Section 3.2.4)
Families with children to be prioritised for treatment – to break cycle of addiction and protect children. (Section 3.2.6)
We propose funding for innovatory community projects, such as the ‘Safer Families Projects’ pioneered in Bolton. (Section 3.2.6)
Immediate family residential service/centre expansion We would suggest that the three proven existing providers (of family residential services), Gilead, Addaction and Phoenix Futures should be supported to expand these services to other areas, increasing the number from 5 back to 15 as soon as possible. (Section 3.2.9)
Training and Qualifications – new degree level courses at University of Bath in counselling to be replicated. (See Section 3.2.9)
A formal adolescent needs assessment to establish the needs of the current 17,000 adolescents in ‘treatment’ and the basis for the governments current targets. (Section 3.6.1)
Immediate review of and assessment of effectiveness of existing adolescent ’substance abuse’ services and needs of 1000 adolescents on Class A drugs (Section 3.6.2)
The development of specialist adolescent residential facilities and programmes for those deemed most in need and at most risk. (Section 3.6.3)
An ‘Adolescent’ Task Force on the National Addiction Trust to formulate and formally trial appropriate community intervention – taking particular consideration of the problem posed by early alcohol and cannabis use – and to introduce a system of accountability. (Section 3.6.3)
Brief Interventions (for alcohol) We propose nationwide training of GPs to provide this proven intervention. (Section 3.2.7)
Promoting and recognising AA and NA. There is evidence to show that ongoing peer support of the type given by the AA and NA fellowships, along with associated support groups such as Families Anonymous, not only is beneficial to the individuals involved but saves statutory services significant costs. We would like to see AA and NA as interrelated with and recognised by all statutory and voluntary ’services’ that have their place in helping someone with any addiction/dependency problem. (Section 3.2.8)
We propose halting the current roll out of Drugs Intervention Programmes – and reviewing and down scaling those currently in operation removing negative and bureaucratically costly targets and associated paperwork. – reverting to practices developed by Darren Worthington and his SMART team in Oxford with their original arrest referral work in approaching and motivating offenders. (Section 3.3.1)
We would propose the introduction of combined drugs and alcohol treatment orders at the discretion of magistrates and following advice from arrest referral workers. (Section 3.3)
Rehabilitation to be made in designated and meaningful settings and be abstinence based (replacing community based DRRs) either highly structured community based abstinence programmes such as that offered by SHARP1 in the community or within the dedicated rehabilitation prison wings, or residential treatment centres. (Section 3.3)
Experimental drugs courts, as in West London, are clearly effective, clearly have great potential and should be continued and replicated but with abstinence orders in meaningful treatment settings as above. (Section 3.3.2)
Our key proposal is that the prison treatment budget, after assessment, should primarily be directed to detoxification in the context of rehabilitation programmes, taking unique advantage of the prison setting and length of sentence. (Section 3.3.3)
A therapeutic community or 12 step programme wing in every prison. We propose an expansion of the existing 16 such dedicated programmes (currently mainly provided by RAPT and Phoenix Futures) to every prison within the estate. (Section 3.3.3)
Our immediate recommendations within the current framework are for:
• Broader HMP KPI targets to reduce target driven pressure on services and incorporate quality indicators.
• The segmentation of audit and inspection from in house drug treatment development, along with an enlarged inspection role.
• The commissioning of a thematic paper by HMCIP to analyse in detail the state of ‘joined up’ services.
• Better research and evaluation of intensive treatment programme.
• Population needs analysis research at every prison establishment in the UK as standard.
• The provision of proper alcohol treatment services in prisons.
• Increased capacity and the specific development and rollout of treatment programmes designed for prisoners whose problem drug is crack cocaine. (Section 3.3.3)
Ongoing outcomes Research is required to see which programmes are most effective in chieving abstinence and how they are achieved. (3.2.12)
Dental Treatment – an urgent need. We would like to see such enlightened initiatives maybe starting at the National Addiction Centre under the direction of the newly amalgamated Action on Addiction. (3.2.12)
An Alcohol Treatment Tax – As well as ignoring treatment needs recent governments have consistently fail to address the most effective way of preventing and reducing alcohol related harm – through taxation. (Section 3.4.1)
A commitment to preventing overall consumption rising further and, preferably, over time, to bringing it down to an agreed lower level, would help to provide a rational goal and focus to the alcohol harm reduction strategy that is presently lacking. Tax policy would be a crucial element of such a strategy. (Section 3.4)
Setting now low (in line with most EU countries) Blood Alcohol Consumption(BAC) limits to 0.5g/L and to 0.2 for inexperienced drivers and large vehicle and dangerous goods. (Section 3.4.2)
A new commitment to controlling supply of drugs. The evidence is that trends in all seizures have dropped since 1998.2 The question has to be asked is whether complex performance management administration has disrupted effective working practices. We recommend they are dropped. (Section 3.5)
Greater attempts to be made to ’size’ the market in order to establish bench marks against which seizures etc can be measured. This can be estimated in relation to street prices and purity. (Section 3.5.2)
A greater commitment to and review of middle level operations and more effective police management is required. We believe that police commitment to tackling drug dealing should be uncompromising. (Section 3.5.4)
Review and Reform Harm reduction and harm minimisation practices that were set up with the clear intent of promoting public health as well as the personal health of addicts are clearly failing. (Section 3.5.5)
Cannabis reclassification to B in the context of a national action plan to confront cannabis use by adolescents. (Section 3.6.5)
Assessing Adolescent Needs – a task force. (Section 3.6.2)
Reviewing Adolescent Substance Services – assessment of appropriateness and effectiveness (Section 3.6.2)
Juvenile Treatment Orders We propose the introduction of juvenile court orders to provide courts with the capacity and authority to order youths to receive drugs and alcohol abstinence treatment in designated residential settings. (Section 3.6.2)
Trialling schools drugs testing. (Section 3.6.6)
Trialling effective addiction education in schools. (Section 3.6.7)

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Ungdomsengagemang projektmedlemmar both on television and by celebrities. Our peers are another strong influence and we believe that peers who don’t use drugs are a positive influence.

-Boredom contributes to young people using drugs and positive activities need to be more accessible.

-Drugs and alcohol are widely available and easily accessible to young people.

Looking in more depth at what the young people said about drug education Mentor report:

The young people were adamant that the personality of the worker who delivers a drug intervention is key to its effectiveness.

There was a general lack of trust in the ability of some teachers to deliver drug education. It was felt that they were not really motivated to teach the subject and were biased in their messages; they only talked about the negative effects of drugs and did not give a balanced view.

One of their participants said:

“I don’t think [teachers] actually care about it, they’re just paid to do the job.”

Of course I’m sure this isn’t entirely fair, but it does suggest that the way teachers approach the subject makes a significant difference to the way it is perceived by those receiving it.

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I asked if Id give people a health warning in schools Conference:

The Thomas Coram Research Unit are putting on what looks to be an interesting conference:

This conference aims to provide participants with new ways of thinking about promotion of the health and well-being of children and young people. Themes and topics to be addressed include:

-alcohol use

-bullying

-sexual health

-physical activity, obesity and healthy lifestyles

-mental health and wellbeing

The conference will be on 14th May in London.  You can download the flier from here .

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