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Bereaved through substance use

Welcome to your copy of these Guidelines, which are for all those whose paid or voluntary work brings them into contact with adults bereaved through a drug or alcoholrelated death. By adult we mean...

Alcohol’s Harm to Others

Alcohol consumption can have a range of negative impacts on people other than the drinker, for example physical violence, road traffic accidents, relationship problems, financial difficulties,...

Character and moderation encouraging the next generation of responsible drinkers

In 2012, the Coalition Government announced their Alcohol Strategy to tackle alcohol misuse and binge drinking across the UK. While there are many serious outstanding challenges related to...

New psychoactive substances: A toolkit for substance misuse commissioners

Increasing numbers of new drugs are causing harm, have been linked to deaths, and are driving public and media concern. These drugs, known as new psychoactive substances (NPS), and often misleadingly...

Young People and Substance Misuse

The latest official data shows that drinking and drug use among young people has more than halved over the past 10 years. Yet there are still significant numbers of young people across the country...

New Psychoactive Substances (NPS): Resource pack for informal educators and practitioners

Children and young people growing up in the 21st century are exposed to risk. Risk and risk-taking are a natural part of the transition into adulthood. But what do we mean by risk? In young people’s...

Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2014

This is the latest in the series of surveys of secondary school children in England whichprovides the national estimates of how many young people aged 11 to 15 smoke, drink alcoholor take drugs. The...

Bringing Everything I Am Into One Place: Summary report

Bringing Everything I Am Into One Place is the result of an Inquiry undertaken and led by the Dartington Social Research Unit and the LankellyChase Foundation. It is based on conversations in large...

Bringing Everything I Am Into One Place

This book is a window into an ongoing conversation. Although those of us who put pen to paper to write these words are researchers by training and profession, this is not a typical research report...

The impact of drug policy on women

In the public mind, the “war on drugs” probably conjures up a male image. In most countries, official statistics would show that men, indeed, are the majority of people who use drugs recreationally,...

The hidden harm: Alcohol’s impact on children and families

Heavy drinking is linked to a range of negative effects in families from modelling of poor drinking behaviours, family arguments and ruined family occasions and relationships to child injuries,...

Trends in risk behaviours and negative outcomes amongst children and young people

This paper looks at the trends in how a range of risk behaviours and negative outcomes have changed over time for children and young people. It also considers whether new risk behaviours could be...

Service user involvement: A guide for drug and alcohol commissioners, providers and service users

Service users’ involvement in the design and delivery of services has contributed significantly to the evolution of effective drug and alcohol treatment systems. This guide builds on guidance...

Individual Placement and Support

Presentation from the IFSW European Conference in Edinburgh 7th - 9th September 2015.

Drug and alcohol policy overview

Presentation from BASW's Special Interest Group in Alcohol and Other Drugs, which took place on the 16th September 2015

Family Drug and Alcohol Courts: the East Sussex Experience

Presentation from BASW's Special Interest Group in Alcohol and Other Drugs, which took place on the 16th September 2015 FDAC provides a problem-solving, therapeutic approach to care proceedings in...

Breaking boundaries: Towards a ‘Troubled Lives’ programme for people facing multiple and complex needs

Successive governments have promised to tackle the ‘root causes’ of social and economic disadvantage. Yet public spending on individuals experiencing problems such as addiction, homelessness,...

Current trends in health, wellbeing and risky behaviours amongst children and young people: a synthesis of recent evidence

Recent data from three major surveys of children and young people’s behaviours and attitudes – the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s smoking, Drinking and Drugs survey, the School Health...

Alcohol and drugs prevention, treatment and recovery: why invest?

Drug and alcohol interventions lead to better public health outcomes

Consultation findings for the BEAD project

This report outlines and discusses findings from a consultation conducted by Cruse and Adfam in 2014 into the experiences and views of people bereaved through drug and alcohol use. Its purpose was to...

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