Fear was Shelegh’s initial reaction when asked to train schools liaison police about drug education. But the experience convinced her that police can be productively engaged in a progressive strategy to the benefit of children inside and outside school. Educating…
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Druglink article from 1987 – Don’t inject AIDS
Photos and words from the government’s £5 million anti-AIDS media campaign. Most ads appeared in youth specific media. Don’t inject AIDS (PDF)
Druglink article from 1987 – Gloves off in anti-injecting campaign
Advertising agency TBWA achieve a triple entendre in this deliberately risque youth press ad, part of the new government commissioned joint anti-injecting anti-drug campaign. TBWA managing director Sammy Harari explained that market research showed if an ad is a bit…
Druglink article 1987 – Reducing harm can hurt by Chris Roworth
Youth workers responsible for a party of young people abroad sight two of them smoking cannabis – should they ‘get heavy’ and risk ruining the trip, or play it cool and risk losing their jobs? What happened next ed an…
Druglink article 1987 – Dilemmas in youth work by Nicholas Dorn and Christine James
Drug use by young people is most often encountered outside rather than inside schools, where it is the youth work side of the education service that has to directly confront the difficult legal and control issues involved. Dilemmas in youth…
Druglink article 1987 – High time for harm reduction by Russell Newcombe
For many youngsters, the ‘just say no’ campaign has come too late or failed: in some urban areas, heroin and other illicit drugs have become a ‘normal’ part of teenage experience. In areas like these, Russell Newcombe argues, it’s ‘high…
Druglink article 1986 – Soft sell-hard cell by Liz Jagger
Prevention policy in Scotland is both softer and harder than in England and Wales. The mass media campaign is softer, focusing on social issues and positive lifestyles rather than on the effects of heroin. But drug enforcement in Scotland is…
Druglink article 1986 – Prevention charter by Les Kay
Les Kay challenges drugs and prevention workers to break out from ineffective school-based attempts to stop drug use to explore new community approaches to reducing drug harm – and be ready to face the flak. Prevention charter (PDF)
Druglink article 1986 – Media campaigns by Nicholas Dorn
From the start the government’s heroin campaign was controversial, opposed by ‘experts’ but favoured by politicians. Nick Dorn describes the background to the campaign and the evaluations of its impact, reminding those of us south of the border that a…
Prevention
What is Prevention? There are three types of prevention: Primary prevention This means trying to stop people using drugs before they have started using them. Secondary prevention This means trying to stop or reduce the harm that people do to…