Try looking in the monthly archives. February 2019

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Grandparents: What role can they play in preventing alcohol and other drug use?

Increasingly I am seeing more grandparents attend my Parent Information Evenings. Some are now their grandchild’s primary caregiver and are really struggling to deal with adolescent behaviour, coming to the talk looking for any tips that may assist them to […]

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Drug Use in Children

  The above graph clearly shows that when adolescents perceive marijuana to be less harmful the use goes up,  and of course vice versa.    Look especially at 1987 – 1993.
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USING DRUGS WHEN YOUNG LINKED TO LONG TERM HEALTH RISKS

 
The findings of a report released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) reveal a promising downward trend regarding drug use among secondary school students in England. Tobacco, alcohol and drug use among students have been cut in […]

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