When the government announced its plans for the new national curriculum some saw this as the death knell for drugs education – at the very least, said the specialists, it would be set back ten years. So why all the…
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Druglink article 1989 – Regional anti-drug campaigns
Druglink summarises the outcome of the government’s attempt to give the glossy ad agency treatment to local drug campaigns. Regional anti-drug campaigns (PDF) Additional keywords: media campaign / primary prevention / schools / local /
Druglink article 1989 – Skills or issues? The nature of drug training by Dave MacDonald
Is it drug training workers need – or drug education? Decide for yourself what learning about drugs should really be about. Skills or issues? The nature of drug training (PDF)
Druglink article 1989 – New drug ads focus on sharing
Ad agency Yellowhammer’s graphic approach is deprecated by health educators but backed by government ministers New drug ads focus on sharing (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Serious fun by Russell Newcombe
Drug education through popular culture. Good jokes circulate like wildfire, comics are passed around, pop songs chorused on the way to school. Can young people learn as they laugh? Serious fun (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Further beyond just say no
Three drug education coordinators from the North West pointed their personal way to ‘Beyond just say no’ Their aim was to start a debate over the future of drug education…They may have got more debate than they bargained for… Further…
Druglink article 1988 – Why not work in prison? by Mike Trace
Last year an important Home Office policy statement helped open the way for drug services to work in prisons. Just one agency in Britain specialises in this work. Its coordinator argues that prison or the threat of prison creates intervention…
Druglink article 1988 – Wraps against AIDS by Andrew Fraser
How can you bring the anti-AIDS message before drug users each time they take drugs? Brighton’s Drug Advice and Information Service found a novel solution. Wraps against AIDS (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Beyond ‘just say no’ by Ian Clements, Julian Cohen and Pat O’Hare
Drug education in schools seems to be up a blind alley – approaches aimed at preventing drug use are ineffective and those aimed at reducing harm are unacceptable. Meantime AIDS is pushing back the frontiers of acceptable responses to drug…
Druglink article 1988 – HIV top priority says official ACMD report
Government rejects call for more money to fight AIDS in drug users. This article also looks at what the ACMD report on Aids and Drug Misuse says and the government response to the report. HIV top priority says official ACMD…