Hard on the heels of the 10 per cent cut in the Young People's Substance Misuse Partnership Grant, the UK Drug Policy Commission last week reported preventive programmes have minimal impact and that resources are more effectively channelled into treatment and harm reduction (see p10).
The opposing standpoint, as we also report this week (p2), is offered by the charity Adfam in conjunction with the National Drug Prevention Development Team. Under the banner Bouncing Back!, it has released the findings of six 12-month pilot programmes that engaged families in drugs and alcohol education. The projects included drugs education workshops for Portuguese-speaking parents and their children, work with rural young people affected by drugs and alcohol in their family and peer-led drug education workshops for fathers in north London.
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