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Mental health and wellbeing among adolescents in Scotland: profile and trends

The Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) is a continuation of a long established series of national surveys on smoking, drinking and drug use. It is the Scottish...

Help me understand: A booklet to help children, young people and workers talk about an adult’s alcohol and drug treatment

This booklet is aimed at children and young people aged 10–14, but it can be adapted to suit the child or young person you are working with. It is intended for use with children and young people...

Understanding the whole person: Part One of a series of literature reviews on severe and multiple disadvantage

This paper looks at journeys of personal change. These journeys are undertaken by many individuals across the world, and although complex and difficult, they are often successful. Change is made up...

Changing patterns of substance misuse in adult prisons and service responses

Drug misuse is a serious threat to the security of the prison system, the health of individual prisoners and the safety of prisoners and staff. Its effects ripple outwards to harm prisoners’ friends...

Drink Wise, Age Well: Alcohol Use and the Over 50s in the UK

This report demonstrates that there is a pressing need for action to reduce alcohol-related harm in older adults across the UK. This first State of the Nation Report from the Drink Wise, Age Well...

Alcohol and pregnancy: Preventing and managing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

This revised BMA board of science report builds upon the findings detailed in the Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (June 2007) . This report outlines the responsibilities of healthcare professionals...

Governance as the true site of Third Sector Innovation

Increasingly, therefore, governance will, of necessity, become more strategic. What exactly does this mean? Here are just some of the questions that a strategic governance function might choose to...

United Kingdom Drug Situation: Focal Point Annual report 2015

The United Kingdom (UK) Focal Point on Drugs is based at Public Health England (PHE). It is the national partner of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and provides...

Four Nations: How Evidence-based are Alcohol Policies and Programmes across the UK?

The consumption of alcohol is an established part of life in the UK. The alcohol industry contributes to the economy through employment and exports. While many people choose not to drink, the...

Novel Psychoacitve Substances - 'Breaking Bad' or Making Good

Developing practice responses to NPS

Responding to NPS: Joined up Policy and Practice?

Novel Psychoactive Substances: Is it just young clubbers?

Inside Out: What can we learn from studying NPS use in custodial settings?

If this is the solution…

Recovery Partnership: State of the Sector 2015

In late 2013 DrugScope, on behalf of the Recovery Partnership, conducted the first State of the Sector survey, the findings of which were reported in January 2014. Consultation for the second report...

Better Courts: the financial impact of the London Family Drug and Alcohol Court

Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs) are rooted in the idea of problem-solving justice, in which courts use their authority to address the complex social issues that bring people before them. FDACs...

London Together: Transforming services for the most excluded in the capital

London is a prosperous city, which generates significant wealth and opportunity. However, many Londoners still face entrenched exclusion linked to significant social problems in the capital: • 27% of...

The Stolen Years: The mental health and smoking action report

This report from Action on Smoking and Health is a call to action. It challenges defeatist assumptions that addiction to smoking amongst people with mental health conditions is either inevitable or...

Mental health, smoking and poverty in the UK

People with a mental disorder are more likely to be unemployed, receive benefits and be living in relative poverty than those without mental health problems. There is also extensive UK and...

A new approach to measuring drinking cultures in Britain

When governments propose changes to alcohol policies, the announcement is often followed by public debate on the potential for the policy to change the country’s drinking culture. However, specifying...

Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy

Between 2006 and 2010 a number of reports and journal papers revealed the scale of alcohol-related harm to individuals, families, communities and the economy in Scotland. This included: • The growing...

Key principles of effective prevention education

Education is a crucial element of broader efforts to prevent negative outcomes, and school-based programmes therefore provide an important context in which to deliver universal preventative...

Taking a new line on drugs

This report, ‘Taking a New Line on Drugs’, comes at a timely moment for drugs strategy both in the UK and across the world. The special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the world...

Suicide by children and young people in England

Suicide is one of the main causes of mortality in young people, and for families its impact is especially traumatic. A previous NCISH report showed that between 2003 and 2013, an average of 428...

A healthier life for all: The case for cross-government action

The essays in this collection are written by some of the most distinguished experts in the field of health. They are published jointly by the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group and the Health...

Prepared for Pregnancy? Preconception health, education and care in Scotland

In Scotland today, far too many pregnancies do not achieve positive outcomes. Of the 70,000 known conceptions last year, there were fewer than 54,000 live births – which means that 16,000 (more than...

The Big Ban Theory: An insight into legal highs usage among young people in England and Wales

New psychoactive substances (NPS) refers to newly available drugs that mimic the effects of drugs such as Cannabis, Ecstasy and Powder Cocaine, which may or may not be legal to buy but are often...

European Drug Report 2017: Trends and Developments

This report offers a snapshot of the European drug situation based on the latest available information from EU monitoring activities. A European overview of the drug market, drug use and harms and...

European Drug Report 2016: Trends and Developments

The analysis presented here describes a European drug market that remains resilient, with some indicators for cannabis and stimulant drugs, in particular, now trending upwards. Overall, supply data...

NPS Come of Age: A UK overview

• All the available official data indicates that in general terms, albeit with some recent blips and changing patterns of use, non-medical drug use in the UK has been in decline since the start of...

Alcohol use across retirement: a qualitative study into drinking in later life

• Retirement is one of many events in a person’s life which can bring a change of routine, including routines and practices around alcohol. • Retirement can provide an opportunity for the volume of...

Data intelligence summary: Alcohol consumption and harm among under 18 year olds

This report examines the available data on alcohol use and harm among those aged under 18 years of age to investigate trends and highlight any areas for public health action. Key findings are: •...

A foot in the door: VCS providers' view of CAMHS transformation

Future in Mind, the Government report of the work of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce, set out “what we need to do to overcome the status quo”. One of the report’...

Understanding and preventing drug-related deaths

This report presents the independent findings, conclusions and recommendations of an expert group supported by Public Health England and the Local Government Association. The expert group...

Prevention of harm caused by alcohol exposure in pregnancy

The lifelong disabilities caused by exposure to alcohol in pregnancy (known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders), together with other negative effects of exposure to alcohol on the pregnancy, are an...

The Frontline Battle: An Inquiry into the Impact of Alcohol on Emergency Services by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm

The UK’s relationship with alcohol is not without consequence. Excessive drinking places an enormous burden on our emergency services, both at an organisational and individual level. Calculating the...

State of the Sector: Drug and alcohol family support

In order to gain an understanding of the current state of the family support sector, Adfam created two surveys. The first, Drug and Alcohol Family Support – 2014 Health Check (HC) ran between August...

State of the Sector: Drug and alcohol family support: Executive summary

The past few years have seen a huge amount of change in our field. We’ve seen the drug and alcohol treatment system fragment and reform, shaped by dramatically reduced budgets and a localism agenda...

An Independent Review into the impact on employment outcomes of drug or alcohol addiction, and obesity

At the heart of this Review is a concern to ameliorate the human, social and economic cost of drug or alcohol addiction or obesity, by addressing the challenges in finding work facing people who are...

Specialist substance misuse services for young people: Main principles for commissioning

In April 2013, commissioning drug and alcohol misuse treatment services became the responsibility of local authorities. At that point local authorities were given greater autonomy to develop their...

An evidence review of the outcomes that can be expected of drug misuse treatment in England

In March 2015, the Department of Health commissioned Public Health England (PHE) to “review the evidence on: what can be expected of the drug treatment and recovery system and provide advice to...

Family Drug and Alcohol Court National Unit: independent evaluation

The Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC) aim to improve outcomes for children and families by providing an alternative way of working with parents involved in care proceedings who are experiencing...

A Manifesto for Change: The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children of Alcoholics

One in five children in the UK lives with a parent who drinks too much – that’s over 2.5 million children. They are Britain’s innocent victims of drink. Hard-drinking parents hurt their children for...

The Public Health Burden of Alcohol and the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Alcohol Control Policies: An evidence review

Alcohol is a prominent commodity in the UK marketplace. It is widely used in numerous social situations. For many, alcohol is associated with positive aspects of life; however there are currently...

Drug misuse prevention: targeted interventions

This guideline covers targeted interventions to prevent misuse of drugs, including illegal drugs, 'legal highs' and prescription-only medicines. It aims to prevent or delay harmful use of drugs in...

Highways and buyways: A snapshot of UK drug scenes 2016

The idea of the survey is to get a snapshot in time of what is happening with UK street drug markets. Previous surveys were conducted as telephone interviews with local drugs workers, Drug Action...

Voices of older people affected by a loved one’s substance use

Adfam’s Older Carers group is funded by the City Bridge Trust of the City of London to address the isolation faced by older carers of those with drug or alcohol problems. Looking around this...

Preventing Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Substance Use Problems

This paper intends to provide teachers, educators and the wider school workforce with practical guidelines on how to prevent children and young people from developing mental health problems as a...

Evaluation of Four Recovery Communities across England: Final report for the Give it Up project

Substance misuse is a key public health priority within the UK. Recent policy recommendations have highlighted the importance of providing services which focus on substance misuse recovery, not just...

Health matters: preventing drug misuse deaths

This professional resource outlines how providers and commissioners can prevent deaths from drug abuse.

Novel Psychoactive Substances insight Report: ‘‘The View from Young People’’

Addaction is a member of the Young People’s Health Partnership. As part of our work through the partnership we have identified a need to improve the ability of health and social care services to...

Sex Work, Drug and Alcohol Use: Bringing the Voices of Sex Workers into the Policy and Service Development Framework in Wales

This document reports on the second stage of a research project that has been carried out to provide a better understanding of the connections between sex work and drug and alcohol misuse in Wales...

Drugs and Alcohol

Does Britain have a drink problem? The statistics suggest so. Ahead of a major BASW conference on the issue Shahid Naqvi takes a look at the changing landscape and the challenges facing professionals

Making it Happen

This document provides guidance for commissioners on how to ensure the needs of families affected by drugs and alcohol are met, and builds on the ‘Why Invest’ resource produced by Adfam in 2015 which...

United Kingdom, Country Drug Report 2017

This report presents the top-level overview of the drug situation in the United Kingdom, covering drug supply, use and public health problems as well as drug policy and responses. The statistical...

2017 Drug Strategy

The complexity and pervasiveness of drug misuse and the harms it causes means that no one can tackle it alone. Government at both national and local levels, international partners, the voluntary and...

Criminal Exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: County Lines guidance

Who’s this guidance for? This guidance is primarily aimed at frontline staff who work with children, young people and potentially vulnerable adults. This includes professionals working in education,...

Better care for people with co-occurring mental health and alcohol/drug use conditions

It is very common for people to experience problems with their mental health and alcohol/drug use (co-occurring conditions) at the same time. Research shows that mental health problems are...

Multiple Needs: Time for political leadership

The government has stated its determination to tackle an escalating set of crises: homelessness, substance misuse, mental ill health and persistently high re-offending rates. Despite some progress,...

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