This briefing paper is part of a series produced by the Drug Education Forum, for schools and others involved in drug education or informal drug prevention. Parents have a strong influence over young people’s decisions regarding drugs and alcohol, perhaps more than they realise.

This research report focuses on the extent and impact of substance use and abuse among high school learners in Gauteng.

This briefing paper is part of a series produced by the Drug Education Forum, for schools and others involved in drug education or informal drug prevention.

Schools have a duty to promote children and young people’s wellbeing, and are also required to promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Suchtprävention ist eine wichtige Aufgabe der Gesundheitsförderung in den Schulen.

Key messages: Universal drug education programmes in schools have been shown to have an impact on the most common substances used by young people: alcohol, tobacco and cannabis.

This guide is the result of a series of workshops conducted in 2009 and 2010 by young people in Romania, India, Mexico and Canada. During these workshops, the authors identified gaps in the information young people have regarding sexual health and drug use.

Ce guide est la version actualisée du guide de prévention des conduites addictives, co-rédigé et diffusé en 2005 par la Direction générale de l’enseignement scolaire et la Mission interministérielle de lutte contre la drogue et la toxicomanie et destiné à tous les acteurs intervenant en milieu sc

Schools have been identified as one of the appropriate settings for addiction prevention since this is the place where pupils may come into contact with drugs for the first time and experiment with them, with the possibility of becoming addicted.

Drug And Alcohol Advisory Group – Key Recommendations - Increase parents’ and carers’ knowledge and skills about drug and alcohol education and prevention enabling them to better inform and protect their children; - Improve the quality of drug and alcohol education by making PSHE a statutory subj