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A quarter of us are worried about local alcohol and drug use
A quarter of English citizens think people being drunk, or dealing or using drugs in their area is a very or fairly big problem, the latest data from the Home Office shows. Public levels of concern haven't moved over 12 ...
“Street Talk” – £893,000 grant for Mentor and Addaction
Mentor and Addaction have secured £893,000 through the Home Office Choices programme for Street Talk, a project to enable 20 grassroots organisations to help vulnerable young people find alternatives to drugs and alcohol. Mentor, the young people’s drug protection charity, and ...
A Love Affair with Drink?
Speaking at the debate to launch Alcohol Research UK Mentor’s Chief Executive, Paul Tuohy, argued that while there is no silver bullet for the problems caused by alcohol there are solutions which will reduce the harms, particularly to young people. He ...
Universal Classroom Alcohol Prevention
In a just published review of 53 well designed studies of classroom based alcohol misuse prevention programmes, for the Cochrane Collaboration, Professor David Foxcroft and Dr Alexander Tsertsvadze have been able to draw out some significant findings which will be ...
Affordability of Alcohol
Statistics released by the NHS show that alcohol is now 44% more affordable than it was in 1980. Recent research published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggests that the affordability of alcohol is a critical factor in young people's decisions about ...