The case for and against peer education has rumbled on and off and perhaps the biggest question is – What’s the point? In answering that question, a Berkshire team set out to create an education programme that would ultimately develop…
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Druglink article 1998 – The more I learn, the more frightened I get: parental anxiety and drug information by Maggie French and Nigel South
Reports on a DPI study to find out about parents attitudes to drugs and drug education. Parental peer education seems to be an answer The more I learn, the more frightened I get: parental anxiety and drug information (PDF)
Druglink article 1998 – Ostriches, owls and all points between – involving parents in drug education by Kevin White
Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain gives parents a “key role” in terms of reinforcing the drug education message. But what about Parents themselves? If they aren’t confident in their understanding of drugs, what can we hope to get…
Druglink article 1998 – Czar czar galore by Oswin Baker
They’ve effectively been in post for three months and even the most hardened cynics have their wishlists for them to tackle. But what exactly does it mean to be UK Anti-Drugs Coordinator or his deputy? What do Keith Hellawell and…
Druglink article 1997 – Northern Ireland: the story so far by Rob Phipps
The political and peace processes of the last few years in Northern Ireland have seen a strengthening of resolve to tackle the province’s growing drug problem. Earlier this year, the RUC made Northern Ireland’s first crack seizure, and in the…
Druglink article 1997 – What’s so special about drug education anyway? by Julian Cohen
In the last Druglink Colin Cripps made an impassioned plea for the clued up drug education worker. here, another of Britain’s leading drug educationalists takes issue with the peer led approach and approaches a middle way, negotiating the tricky pathway…
Druglink article 1997 – Message on a bottle by Richard Ives
It has killed five times more people in the last decade than cocaine, ecstasy and speed put together, but solvent misuse has always been the ugly sister of the drug field. That could change as slogans like Solvent Abuse Can…
Druglink article 1997 – Workers with attitude by Colin Cripps
No one’s getting younger these days except it seems, drug users. But how can we hope to reach them in the classroom, in the agency and on the street? And how can we do that without being patronising or power-hungry?…
Druglink article 1997 – Preventing confusion by Lorraine Rogerson
The interview with Tony Newton in the last Druglink raised the possible confusion of the place in Tackling Drugs Together of the Drugs Prevention Initiative and asked whether it was relevant. But the DPI has an important part to play…
Druglink news 1996 – Bullets, misused substances or just an unfortunate accident?
In October, the Health Education Authority (HEA) followed up its national drug campaign with a fresh one on solvent misuse. The adverts clearly place solvents in the same league as heroin – as a substance people deliberately misuse. This definition…