With the aim of showing how educators can use their skills to inform practical action on problematic drug issues, this text identifies the drug issues emerging in the classroom and highlights strategies for dealing with them.
Drugs - making a difference through action teams; intelligence as education for all? government drug policies 1980-1997; drugs and young people - identifying and meeting the concerns of parents; addiction counselling - working in partnership for the identification and referral of younger clients - can we do better?; young people and drug use - an analysis of motivation and experience - the lessons for practitioners and policy-makers; what "works" in drug education?; developing drugs policies in schools; getting it right - making the case for risk education; training the educators; drug education in informal settings.
