NHS stop smoking services quarterlyThis release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents information from October to December 2025 on NHS Stop Smoking Services in Scotland and health boards’ progress towards their annual Local Delivery Plan (LDP) Standard. In the period…
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Education/Prevention – alcohol
Drinkaware unveils new shared ambition to reduce number of risky drinkers in the UK by 2 millionDrinkaware, the UK’s leading charity tackling alcohol harm, has today launched a new five-year strategy setting out an ambitious shared target to reduce the…
Education/Prevention – drugs
A whole-system response to drug prevention in the UK The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) was commissioned in July 2023 to provide advice on drug prevention for young people, supporting the 10-year national drugs strategy (‘From harm to…
What’s the Government doing about drugs?
Latest funding and announcements October 2025The UK government launched a campaign aimed at 16 to 24 year olds and social media users to highlight the risks of using drugs such as ketamine, counterfeit medicines and adulterated THC vapes. The initiative…
Does drug education work?
It is important drug education is based on evidence about what works and what clearly does not work. Many drug education programmes have been evaluated in this country, other European countries and America. Collectively they show that: The impact of…
Education & prevention
ACMD briefing on the prevention of drug and alcohol dependence (2015) (PDF) DrugScope produced many report and briefings in this area and helped to run the Drug Education Practitioner’s Forum Education and prevention department reports Joining Forces: Guidance for police working…