According to the official statistics, the number of problematic heroin users has fallen for the first time across the UK. Yet Swansea appears to be bucking the trend, where according to one user, it’s ‘more hassle to buy a packet of fags’ than…
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Druglink article 2000 – Positive peer pressure: Youth counsel youth by Lis Heath and John Heath
The best people to talk to young people about drugs and / or alcohol could be other trained young people Positive peer pressure: Youth counsel youth (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Regaining lost youth: youth workers success with drug users by John Bradshaw
The broad, comprehensive approach of Leeds City Council youth workers developed relationships with socially excluded young people that drug workers find difficult to establish. Regaining lost youth: youth workers success with drug users (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – Blanket drink guidelines are hard to swallow by Andy Stonard
Are ‘units’ and ‘sensible’ drinking levels a good way of getting across alcohol harm reduction messages? Andy Stonard on how a more nuanced information campaign, where the public is enabled to self-assess risk, can yield better results. Blanket drink guidelines are hard to…
Druglink article 1999 – A stab in the dark: alcohol swabs as education tools by Julie Macrow
Why are sterets given to injecting drug users and how are they supposed to be used? A stab in the dark: alcohol swabs as education tool (PDF)
Druglink article 1999 – Watching brief: a video to educate and confront denial by Kamlesh Patel
Videos and support packs in Urdu and Bengali were developed to raise drug awareness with parents in a cultural group that has denied the existence of its drug problems. Watching brief: a video to educate and confront denial (PDF) Additional…
Druglink article 1999 – Getting the point across: a cheap, effective, brief intervention to reduce injecting by Neil Hunt, Garry Stillwell and Paul Griffiths
Since the 1980s, targeted interventions with injecting drug users have largely involved secondary prevention strategies intended to reduce the risk of HIV and make injecting less harmful, rather than primary prevention work that reduces the numbers transitioning to injecting. The…
Druglink article 1999 – Education, education, education: the development of a specialised learning centre for drug users by Shelley Alge and Rita Kemp
The Government has announced that learning is at the heart of its welfare reform programme and a key element in tackling social exclusion. So where do people with drug problems fit in and how can their needs be resourced within…
Druglink article 1998 – Thirty years of drug education: whose learning curve? by Niall Coggans
In an era of the evidence base and the overarching question of “what works?” it is vital that we accept the lesson that 30 years of drug education has taught us: you cannot expect drug education to have a high…
Druglink article 1998 – Study safely: an exercise in partnership by Patrick Branigan and Claire Foxley
College students use drugs. In fact, for many students, going to college is the first time they come into regular contact with drugs. In London alone, there are over half a million students, nearly 100,000 of whom are higher education…