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
UK Drug Trends Intelligence – First edition – October 2026 – What is changing in the UK drug market and what services need to know.This first edition brings together a national picture at a fixed publication cut-off. The report covers changes…
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…