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DOCUMENT 2012 HTM file
The government's alcohol strategy

The UK government alcohol strategy for England and Wales claims to signal a radical change to turn the tide against irresponsible drinking. After resisting the policy, headline is the commitment to setting a minimum per unit price for alcohol.

DOCUMENT 2015 HTM file
Alcohol-use disorders

Online flowcharts from the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guide planners and practitioners dealing with alcohol use disorders through choices of strategies and interventions on prevention, brief interventions, alcohol treatment, and treatment of associated medical conditions.

STUDY 2011 HTM file
Achieving positive change in the drinking culture of Wales

This research report usefully reflects evidence from reviews and recent and seminal studies, offering guidance not just on each intervention type, but on what the most effective mix might be in Wales and by extension in the UK as a whole if the aim is to affect drink-related harm at the level of the whole population.

STUDY 2008 HTM file
Harnessing peer interaction in school-based prevention can backfire

Overall a US study found that peer-led, small group work based on friendship networks augmented the preventive impact of a substance misuse curriculum, but the reverse was the case when the closest friends of a pupil used substances relatively frequently.

STUDY 1999 PDF file 238Kb
Mixed results from UK pilot of US's most popular prevention programme

An evaluation of the police-led DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) curriculum delivered to 10–11-year-old pupils found disappointing improvements in resistance skills but greater awareness of alcohol and tobacco as drugs.

REVIEW 1999 PDF file 342Kb
Teaching in the tender years

British review of primary school drug education concludes that long-term, intensive, interactive programmes involving parents and the wider community can have a worthwhile impact on later drug use.

STUDY 2000 PDF file 559Kb
Education's uncertain saviour

A 20-year series of studies evaluating a relatively unsung US programme kept hopes alive that school lessons can prevent drug use. The work is impressive but is it convincing enough to salvage a prevention role for education?

STUDY 2000 PDF file 222Kb
Everyone is NOT doing it - important prevention message for early teens

A US alcohol education study distinguished by its long-term follow-up and its harm reduction objective found that school programmes can reduce excessive alcohol use among teenagers by correcting unrealistic beliefs about how normal drinking is.

STUDY 2001 PDF file 255Kb
Initial outcomes from Australian alcohol harm reduction curriculum for secondary schools

Compared to controls, age-related increases in drinking among pupils who had already drunk alcohol (but only under adult supervision) were halved and the number of harms they experienced was a third as high.

LETTER 2001 PDF file 173Kb
DARE studies out of date and evaluate just one third of the programme

DARE (UK) Chief Executive expresses disappointment at the comment in Findings issue 5 that "Dominant among the non-interactive programmes [Nancy Tobler] helped expose as preventive failures is DARE".

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