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| Auricular Acupuncture | Specialised complementary therapy where acupuncture points on the outer ear are treated, using either needles or electro acupunctoscopes | | Brief Solution Focussed Therapy | Brief Solution Focussed Therapy is a short term action orientated intervention which can be highly successful in helping people implement change. Therapy tends to focus on one problem and tries to find solutions to solve it without spending too much time looking at someones past life. | | Motivational Interviewing | Motivational interviewing is a client-centered, directive method for enhancing motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. It is often used to get individuals to think more deeply about their drug use, what's good and what's bad about it, with the aim of getting them motivated to change their behaviour. | | Needle Exchange | Offers clean needles to stop the spread of blood borne viruses like HIV, Hepatitis B and C. Such schemes also offer safe disposal of used ones. | | Theatre in Education | Theatre Groups working specifically with Young People targetting areas such as bullying and substance misuse. |
| Resources | | Name | Description | | Advice and Guidance available | There is vast amount of advice and guidance available on young people and substance misuse. This resource section will focus on
Government strategy and advice, whilst within the 'Links' section of the website, you will find a host of sites, some like the 'Frank' website are funded by the Government, and others are from groups and organisations working with young people. Neither lists is exhaustive, so if you know of a site or document that you feel should be included then do please let us know.
Useful Links for further guidance & research reports:
http://www.drugs.gov.uk/ReportsandPublications/YoungPeople
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/wip/7/PDFS/youngpeople.pdf
http://www.nta.nhs.uk | | British Crime Survey | Home Office Research Findings 182: Prevalence of drug use: key findings from the 2001/2002 British Crime Survey. (03/12/2002)
Author: Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
The British Crime Survey (BCS) is a large national survey of adults who live in a representative cross-section of private households in England and Wales. In addition to asking respondents about their experiences of crime, the BCS also asks about a number of other crime-related topics. Since 1994, the BCS has included a comparable module of questions on drug misuse.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/NationalStrategy/1038933221 | | Clinical Guidance | Drug Misuse and Dependance - Guidelines on Clinical Management (01/01/1999)
Author: Department of Health
Department of Health clinical guidance for doctors
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/Treatment/1034693894 | | Criminal Justice - Young Offenders | Drugs - What the Law Says and What It Means. Written by the Drugs Strategy Directorate , the following link leads to a leaflet which explains the different classes of drugs and the penalties related to each class;
http://www.drugs.gov.uk/publication-search/frank/Drugs-and-the-law.pdf?view=Standard&pubID=191808
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Drugs & Young Offenders (01/11/1999)
Author: Drugs Prevention Advisory Service
Guidance for Drug Action Teams and Youth Offending Teams, criminal justice agencies and youth justice teams, drugs services, and others who work with young offenders.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/Communications/1035554946
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Treating adolescent substance abuse problems in the juvenile drug court.
Belenko S., Dembo R. From: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry: 26 (1), 2003, p.87-110.
Intervening with adolescents experiencing substance abuse problems remains a critical need for the juvenile system for several reasons. Juvenile drug courts (JDCs), which are being implemented in many jurisdictions, provide a promising opportunity to more effectively intervene in the lives of drug-involved youth. This article discusses the multiple problems juvenile offenders often present, requiring the need for targeted interventions, provides a brief history of JDCs, and reviews some critical features of JDCs, and the challenges and constraints many of these programs face. It ends with an assessment of the existing research on the impacts of JDCs and a review of issues facing them and areas for future development.
DrugScope Library No: 97187
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This document is intended as an aide for local areas in developing workforce strategies for young people
http://www.drugs.gov.uk/publication-search/young-people/workforce-training-strategies
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Guidance on good practice (01/10/1998)
Author: Drugs Prevention Initiative
A supplement to the DPI 'Developing local drugs prevention strategies' guidance to Drug Action Teams.
This good practice guidance sets out some of the key findings from the Drugs Prevention Initiative’s (DPI) programme of work. The programme of work covered various thematic approaches to community based drugs prevention, including work with young people, parents, community involvement approaches and criminal justice interventions. These themes have been identified in this booklet under the National Drugs Strategy aims of Communities and Young People. In addition, the good practice points cover the following cross-cutting themes -integration, training, racial and cultural diversity, and information/communications - which are crucial to the effectiveness of any drugs prevention strategy.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/Communications/1035547666
xxxxxxxxxx | | Drug Strategys | Tackling Crack - A National Plan (24/12/2002)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
This is the full version of the National Crack Plan identified in the Drugs Strategy Update of December 2002. Free hard copies of this publication are available to order.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/NationalStrategy/1040390696
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Updated Drug Strategy (03/12/2002)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
This updated national strategy sets out a range of policies and interventions which concentrate on the most dangerous drugs, the most damaged communities and the individuals whose addiction and chaotic lifestyles are most harmful, both to themselves and others. Free hard copies of this publication are available to order.
http://www.drugs.gov.uk/drug-strategy/drug-strategy-publications
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Communities Against Drugs (29/03/2001)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
This booklet sets out what the Government is doing to tackle not just the consequences of drug misuse, but also its causes.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/Communities/1034249997
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Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain (27/04/1998)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
The Government's Ten-Year Strategy for Tackling Drugs Misuse
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/NationalStrategy/1039085479
xxxxxxxxxx | | Drugs Prevention Initiative | DPI Digest 1 - Learning from experience: good practice lessons from the Drugs Prevention Initiative (01/01/1997)
Author: Drugs Prevention Initiative
Summarises the key issues from Drugs Prevention Initiative Papers 1 to 8.
This paper summarises the key issues from the first eight Drug Prevention Initiative research papers. It concentrates on the successful ideas and practices which have emerged, and useful solutions workers devised to problems and obstacles they encountered, in projects from the first phase of the Drugs Prevention Initiative.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/DPIResearch/1033751387
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DPI Paper 7 – Drugs Prevention and Community Development (01/10/1995)
Author: Paul Henderson
Principles of good practice for combining drugs prevention and community development. Free hard copies of this publication are available to order.
In this report the author reviews and analyses the range of experience from the last years of the Drugs Prevention Initiative and uses what he has found, together with what could be found from existing research literature, to draw some conclusions about how best to combine drugs prevention and community development.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/DPIResearch/1033751394
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DPI Paper 6 – Do It Yourself (01/07/1995)
Author: Heidi Baker & Martin Caraher
The process of developing a drugs information resource for children. Free hard copies of this publication are available to order.
In this report the authors describe a possible model for devising, delivering and evaluating a drugs information resource for 9-10 year olds, based on actual experience of work with the Drugs Prevention Initiative during 1994.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/DPIResearch/1033751392
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http://www.drugscope.org.uk/wip/7/pdfs/bmeprev&out.pdf
Drug Using Parents -
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/wip/7/pdfs/parents.pdf
Drugs and the UK Dance Culture -
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/wip/7/pdfs/dance.pdf
Books on Dual Diagnosis -
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/wip/7/PDFS/dualdiag.pdf
Legalisation of Cannabis -
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/wip/7/pdfs/legalisation.pdf
Sniffer Dogs, Testing and School -
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/wip/7/pdfs/policies-schools.pdf | | Education | Protecting Young People (01/01/1998)
Author: Department for Education and Skills
This guidance concentrates on how drug education should be most effectively delivered and on the principles underlying workable and practical protocols on how to handle drug-related incidents.
The primary message of this guidance is that drug education is most effective as part of a wider personal, social and health education programme that begins in primary school and is continued in secondary school and beyond. Its other key messages are the importance of involving to best effect all those with an interest in delivering effective drug education and the need for lines of communication to be open both at school and youth service level and across the LEA.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/YoungPeople/1034685987
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DPI Paper 6 – Do It Yourself (01/07/1995)
Author: Heidi Baker & Martin Caraher
The process of developing a drugs information resource for children. Free hard copies of this publication are available to order.
In this report the authors describe a possible model for devising, delivering and evaluating a drugs information resource for 9-10 year olds, based on actual experience of work with the Drugs Prevention Initiative during 1994.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/DPIResearch/1033751392
xxxxxxxxxx | | Essential Elements: NTA Guidance | New guidance for young people's substance misuse treatment services
A new guide to the commissioning and developing of substance misuse treatment services for young people has been published by the NTA. Essential elements has been developed in response to the joint strategy published by the Department for Education and Skills and the Home Office and supported by the Department of Health, linking Every child matters and the National Drug Strategy for Young People.
This guidance is intended for young people's substance misuse commissioners, co-coordinators and joint commissioning groups, drug action teams, children and young people's partnerships and will help them respond to the new approach to planning and delivery arising from Every Child Matters: the next steps and Children Act 2004.
The document gives practical advice and direction on the delivery of substance misuse treatment services for young people by outlining the need for substance misuse services for under 18s to be child focused and by describing the comprehensive range of services that all young people in every area in the country should be able to access. Consideration is also given to where treatment services fit into a model of children's services and provides guidance on quality measures such as child protection and consent to treatment protocols. This advice will help to develop young people's services and promote good practice across this growing sector.
The guidance will also make a big contribution to the outcomes set out by the Government in Every Child Matters for children and young people which are:
being healthy
staying safe
enjoying and achieving
making a positive contribution
economic wellbeing.
Funding for the provision of young people's treatment services is provided primarily via the young people's partnership grant and the contribution will be increased over the next three year period (2005 -2008) by a minimum of 55%.
The full Essential elements document can be found at www.nta.nhs.uk/programme/docs/Essential_elements_young%20people.pdf
Associated publications:
Every Child Matters: Change for children, Young people and drugs, 2005 DFES
Every Child Matters: Change for children, 2004 DFES
Updated National Drug Strategy, 2003, Home Office
The substance of young needs. Review 2001, HAS.
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/programme/docs/Essential_elements_young%20people.pdf | | Every Child Matters | Every Child Matters: Change for Children, Young People and Drugs is available to download at:
http://www.drugs.gov.uk/publication-search/young-people/every-child-matters.pdf
The guidance sets out how those responsible for delivering children and young people's services and the drug strategy should work together to improve the futures of young people, their families and community.
Author: Department for Education and Skills | | Guidance for Schools and Youth Services | Guidance for schools is available at;
http://www.drugs.gov.uk/publication-search/young-people/guidance-for-schools
This document provides guidance on all matters relating to drug education, the management of drugs within the school community, supporting the needs of pupils with regard to drugs and drug policy development.
Author: DfES | | Health Advisory Services | The Substance of Young Needs Review 2001 (01/08/2001)
Author: Health Advisory Service
This report follows the Health Advisory Service report, ‘Children and Young People, Substance Misuse Services – The Substance of Young Needs’ (1996). It updates and reviews the changes in policy, in commissioning, design and delivery of services, and in our knowledge of the effectiveness of prevention and treatment interventions since the first publication. The scope of the review covers tobacco, alcohol and drugs of potential misuse in young people up to the age of 19 years of age. It makes recommendations on commissioning, design and delivery of services and interventions.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/YoungPeople/1042216356 | | Hidden Harm | Hidden Harm - Executive Summary (05/06/2003)
Author: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
This publication is a summary of an inquiry carried out by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, focussing on children in the UK with a parent, parents or other guardian whose drug use has serious negative consequences for themselves and those around them.
Further Details : http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/NationalStrategy/1054805598
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Hidden Harm (05/06/2003)
Author: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
This publication is an inquiry carried out by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, focussing on children in the UK with a parent, parents or other guardian whose drug use has serious negative consequences for themselves and those around them.
Further Details:
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/NationalStrategy/1054733801 | | Identifying Needs, Prevention and Treatment | First steps in identifying young people's substance related needs (13/02/2003)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
This guidance is aimed at professionals who work in statutory or voluntary health, social care, education and the criminal justice system, providing a service to children and young people.
Further Detaills:
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/YoungPeople/1045138394?batch_start=1
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Assessing local need. Planning services for young people (01/01/2002)
Author: DrugScope and Drugs Prevention Advisory Service
Offers a framework for assessing young people's needs for drug programmes.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/YoungPeople/1033994537
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DPAS Paper 5: Taking the Message Home (02/08/2000)
Author: Richard Velleman, Wilm Mistral and Lora Sanderling
A report describing the findings from the first major research study in the UK to examine the involvement of parents in drug prevention work.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/DPASPublications/1033750749
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DPAS Briefing 4 (02/08/2000)
Author: Martine Stead, Anne Marie Mackintosh, Douglas Eadie and Gerard Hastings
A four page summary of DPAS Paper 4, which focuses on the development of a multi-component drug prevention programme for adolescents. Free hard copies of this publication are available to order. The paper reported interim findings from ‘NE Choices’, a multi-component drugs prevention programme for young people in the north-east of England. The programme combined drama, work with parents, classroom activity, youthwork, media and information, and community activities.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/DPASPublications/1033750748
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Drug treatment services for young people: a systematic review of effectiveness and the legal framework.
Elliott L., Orr L., Watson L. Jackson A. Edinburgh: Effective Interventions Unit; Substance Misuse Division, 2002. 131 pages. ISBN 0755905105
This report presents the findings of two reviews. Part one contains the findings of a systematic review of published research into the effectiveness of treatment and care services for drug using young people up to the age of 16 years. Part two contains the findings of a separate literature review of the current statutory framework that might affect the provision or take up of drug treatment services for young people under the age of 16 years in Scotland. The work presented in this report forms one element of research to review existing knowledge about, and service provision for, the treatment and care of young people with developing or existing problems with drug misuse.
DrugScope Library No: 95201
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Adolescents, alcohol and substance abuse: reaching teens through brief interventions.
Monti P.M., Colby S.M., O'Leary T.A. (ed.) New York: Guilford Press, 2001. 350 pages.
ISBN 1572306580
This volume reviews a range of empirically supported approaches to dealing with alcohol and other drug problems in this large and diverse clinical population. The focus is on motivationally based brief interventions that can be delivered in a variety of contexts, that address key developmental
considerations, and that draw on the latest knowledge about the processes of addictive behaviour change.
DrugScope Library No: EG 95104-95112
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Substance dependency treatment for adolescents: practice and research.
Jainchill N. From: Substance Use & Misuse: 35 (12-14), 2000, p.2031-2060.
This pager reviews the more common treatment approaches that address adolescent substance abuse and the spectrum of problems which often attend involvement with drugs. The most common outpatient treatment approaches for adolescents are 12-step based programs and family-based therapies which may be used separately or in conjunction with each other. The therapeutic community is a residential approach characterized by the use of the peer community itself to facilitate social and psychological change in individuals. Both outpatient and residential modalities have demonstrated effectiveness in working with adolescents. Ideally, the type of intervention will depend upon the young person's needs, in particular the extent and effects of his/her drug use, as well as the level of other problems. Overall, treatment must address a range of concerns of special relevance to adolescents because of their age and dependency status for example, developmental stage, cultural issues, and gender issues.
DrugScope Library No: 91409
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Services for young people with problematic drug misuse: a guide to principles and practice.
Scottish Executive. Substance Misuse Division. Effective Interventions Unit. Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland. Partnership Drugs Initiative. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive, 2003. 53p.
This guide aims to support Drug Action Teams (DATs) as they work towards the national standard ‘to ensure that drug misusers aged under 16 have access to drug treatment and care services which are in line with national guidance, by 2004.’ Chapters cover young people’s needs and rights; accessing services; assessing needs; the importance of evaluation; planning services; and determining which intervention is most appropriate.
DrugScope Library No: 98043
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Making harm reduction work: needle exchange for young people under 18 years old.
DrugScope., Department of Health. London.: DrugScope, 2001. 11p.
(Included in the 'Making Harm Reduction Work' conference pack.)
This briefing paper examines some of the key issues to be considered when providing needle exchange facilities for young people under 18-years old. The complexity of providing these sorts of service to young drug misusers is acknowledged, as is the importance of reducing harm and encouraging the use of alternative routes of administration. Additional harmful factors and differences in the legal status of this age group are also highlighted. Issues specifically discussed include: frameworks for providing needle exchange to young people; confidentiality; who
should provide needle exchange to young people; assessment process and delivering needle exchange to young people.
DrugScope Library No: 90619
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Author: Richard Velleman, Wilm Mistral and Lora Sanderling
A report describing the findings from the first major research study in the UK to examine the involvement of parents in drug prevention work.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/DPASPublications/1033750749
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Parents/carers/families
Taking the message home: involving parents in drug education.
Velleman R., Mistral W., Sanderling L. Drugs Prevention Advisory Service University
of Bath London: Home Office, 2000. 48p. ISBN 1840825154
Research indicates that parents influence both the views and the subsequent behaviour of their children towards substance abuse and therefore have a major role to play in drugs prevention. This report describes the findings from the first major research study in the UK to examine the involvement of parents in drug prevention work. It examines whether it is possible to involve parents in drug prevention activities and improve their awareness, skills, and ability to positively influence their children. This study evaluated five drug prevention programmes for parents that were supported by the Drugs Prevention Initiative (DPI). This involved conducting a
literature review; interviewing and surveying parents, children and professionals; and analyzing data from a range of other sources, including course observations, focus groups and project reports.
DrugScope Library No: 89346
xxxxxxxxx | | Looked After Children | Taking care with drugs (04/11/2002)
Author: DrugScope, Dept of Health
Funded by the department of Health, this guidance provides clarity and support, as well as practical advice, to those developing their local policies and practices in relation to drugs and alcohol for children looked after by the local authority. Covers substance misuse education, assessment and interventions and advise on the law in relation to incident management.
Taking care with drugs (04/11/2002)
Author: DrugScope, Dept of Health
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/NationalStrategy/1039088234
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Home Office Research Study 260 - One problem among many: drug use among care leavers in transition to independent living (05/02/2003)
Author: Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
This 12-month study (July 2001 to June 2002), funded by the Home Office Drugs and Alcohol Research Unit, examined young care leavers’ patterns of drug use as they moved from care to live independently.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/NationalStrategy/1044449693 | | Minority Groups and Diversity Issues | Drug education for young people excluded from school: a briefing paper.
Draper D., Lang J., Lovey J., Taylor C. London: DrugScope; Drug & Alcohol Prevention Team, (2003). 6 pages.
This paper presents a number of recommendations for practice in relation to drug education for school excludees, arising from a survey of 40 Local Authority areas in England. Professionals and young people were interviewed about their experiences, and the local provision for young people excluded from school. DrugScope conducted the survey during the summer of 2001.
DrugScope Library No: 96960
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Substance misuse and ethnic minorities: issues for the UK.
Wanigaratne S., Unnithan S., Strang J. From: Psychiatry in Multicultural Britain: 2001, p.243-263.
Different cultural groups accept intoxication with alcohol and other chemical substances to varying degrees. Within each culture religious and ethnic factors influence rates of substance misuse and hence associated mental health disorders. The levels of misuse identified as problematic differ across cultural and clinical settings. Social acceptance to total exclusion can be seen around the world. In this chapter, Wanigaratne et al highlight comorbidity of substance misuse and mental disorders as well as their association with various social and economic factors. Having illustrated the levels of substance misuse from existing epidemiological data, they go on to suggest that several problems remain while interpreting this data. Within the African-Caribbean community, Wanigaratne et al suggest, prevalence of abuse of different substances varies; for example, rates of alcohol dependency and misuse are low. Among certain religious groups in the south Asian communities, however, levels of alcohol misuse are high, while those of opiates are remarkably low. Wanigaratne et al highlight the treatment needs of special groups such as the young within the ethnic minority groups.
DrugScope Library No: 94131
xxxxxxxxxx | | Policy and Strategy Issues | Tackling Drugs as Part of Neighbourhood Renewal (02/07/2002)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
Action on drugs is an essential part of any programme to regenerate the poorest and most deprived communities. Well applied, comprehensive programmes can work and make a difference.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/Communities/1034076137
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Young People's Advocacy Pack (01/01/2002)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
This pack has been developed to help those working in youth settings talk to young people about drugs and to encourage them to develop the skills that will help them to resist drug misuse.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/YoungPeople/1034673537
xxxxxxxxxx | | Positive Futures | Raising the Bar - Positive Futures (11/07/2005)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
Guide to Accreditation for practitioners considering accreditation as part of their work with young people in non-formal education settings.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/YoungPeople/1121069025
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Communicating Positive Futures (Oct 2000) (08/06/2005)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
A resource for projects to help devise and deliver communications activities to raise awareness of Positive Futures. This guidance has ideas and advice on how to communicate with the media, opinion formers, young peopleand local residents. Many project workers have recountedtheir first-hand experiencesto us. By drawing on these reflections we hope to help you enlist support, encourage response and deliver information about Positive Futures.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/YoungPeople/1118246250
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cul-de-sacs and gateways - understanding the Positive Futures approach (03/06/2003)
Author: Drugs Strategy Directorate
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/YoungPeople/9875625234 | | Safer Clubbing | On-line report 43/03 - Calculating the risk: recreational drug use among clubbers in the South East of England (29/12/2003)
Author: Research, Development and Statistics
This report presents the key findings from a research study exploring recreational drug and alcohol use among young people who attend mainstream commercial nightclubs.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/ResearchDevelopmentStatisticsRDS/1072795398
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Safer Clubbing Guide (07/03/2002)
Author: Russell Webster, Mike Goodman and Grainne Whalley
The Safer Clubbing guide contains comprehensive new advice for club owners, dance event promoters and local authority licensing departments on how to ensure the health and safety of anyone attending dance events in England.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/Communities/1034174284 | | User Involvement | New frontiers: using the internet to engage teens in substance abuse prevention and treatment.
Skinner H., Maley O., Smith L., Chirrey S., Morrison M. London: Guilford Press, In: Adolescents, alcohol, and substance abuse: reaching teens through brief interventions. Monti P.M., Colby S.M., O'Leary T.A. (ed.) 2001. p.297-318.
This chapter describes opportunities for using the Internet for substance abuse prevention and brief treatment with adolescents. Practical examples for alcohol, drug, and tobacco interventions are taken from the Web, as well as from the TeenNet Website CyberIsle.
DrugScope Library No: EG 95111
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Tried and tested: a practical manual, based on the Cascade model, for developing youth-led drug awareness programmes.
Thompson H., Mackin L. Solihull: Cascade, 2000. 72 pages.
This manual has been written to guide the development of youth-led drug awareness programmes. It covers all aspects of implementing and managing a youth-led education and prevention programme: planning, training, activities and resources. The manual also discusses special education needs, and describes inventive activities, props and role-plays. There are suggestions for school-based initiatives and for road-shows.
DrugScope Library No: 92289
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Youth Led/Drugs Ed: peer drug education.
Wing B. London: Turn@round Mentoring Plus, 2001. 4p.
This document describes the work of Youth Led/Drugs Ed (YLDE), a peer education programme based in Brent, London. The aim of YLDE is to encourage young people to facilitate in the drug education of their peers. The programme uses intensive training sessions in skills such as team building, prevention, harm minimisation, life skills teaching and presentation. Certificates are awarded when key stages of training are completed. The author describes the objectives and evaluation method for this programme.
DrugScope Library No: 92814 | | Vulnerable Young People | HORS 228: At the margins: drug use by vulnerable young people in the 1998/99 Youth Lifestyles Survey (05/11/2001)
Author: Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
This report presents an analysis of data from the 1998/99 Youth Lifestyles Survey (YLS), focusing upon levels of drug use by vulnerable young people.
http://213.121.214.244/ReportsandPublications/ResearchDevelopmentStatisticsRDS/1046881702
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Problematic substance use and the young homeless: implications for health and well- being.
Wincup E., Bayliss R. From: Youth and Policy: 71, 2001, p.44-58.
In this article, the authors discuss some of the barriers which prevent young homeless people with substance misuse problems from accessing specialist and health care resources and explore the implications of research findings for policy and practice in terms of prevention and treatment for this group.
DrugScope Library No: 93099
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Treating the cause not the problem: vulnerable young people and substance misuse.
Allen D. From: Journal of Substance Use: Mar., 8(1), 2003, p.42-46.
Political, professional and public concern regarding young people and illicit substance use continues to gain momentum in line with statistical data that indicate more young people are using drugs at a younger age. It has been identified that there needs to be a better understanding of what young people believe about drugs, if credible and relevant interventions are to be developed. Furthermore, the opinions of young recipients of certain health education approaches is a neglected
area. This paper presents the findings of some research carried out among some young people attending a youth club in an inner city location to meet these identification needs. Insights were gained regarding the motivational factors for use and non-use of illicit drugs and what young people found helpful (and not so helpful) regarding health education and drug use. However, the findings suggest a priority is that the broader social needs of these young people must be addressed
as a priority if subsequent educational interventions are to be successful.
DrugScope Library No: 97493
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Tackling drugs with vulnerable young people: examples from Health Action Zones.
UK. Department of Health. DH Drug Prevention Projects Programme.
London: DOH, 2001. 43p.
This document identifies examples of drug use prevention projects targeting young people in local communities. Examples of projects are using to illustrate partnership working, engaging young people, training and support, and key learning points. Contact details are provided for further information on each project.
DrugScope Library No: 92827
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Vulnerable young people and drugs: opportunities to tackle inequalities.
Evans K., Alade S. (ed.) Department of Health. London: DrugScope, 2000. 24p.
This document presents executive summaries of pieces of research carried out under the auspices of a Department of Health funded research programme. The aim of the programme was to provide research based evidence that would underpin the development of high quality and effective interventions with groups of young people thought to be vulnerable to developing drug misuse problems. The focus of the initiative was to inform primary and secondary drug prevention strategies and other opportunities to intervene. The background to each project, methodology used and findings are presented.
DrugScope Library No: 89313
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Drug prevention for vulnerable young people: issues for planning, evaluation and practice.
National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders. 2003. 8p.
DrugScope Library No: 990
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