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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.

Integrated Safeguarding Boards challenges and opportunities

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

Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Attacement based Therapy

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

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...

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...

Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the risks to children - one year on

This ‘One Year On’ report expands upon the findings and recommendations of Adfam’s Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the risks to children, published in 2014, and further contributes to the...

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...

Adverse Childhood Experiences and their impact on health-harming behaviours in the Welsh adult population

An increasing body of research identifies the long-term harms that can result from chronic stress on individuals during childhood. Such stress arises from the abuse and neglect of children but also...

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...

The impact of adverse experiences in the home on the health of children and young people, and inequalities in prevalence and effects

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are situations which lead to an elevated risk of children and young people experiencing damaging impacts on health, or other social outcomes, across the life...

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...

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