Published by Sheldon Press, the resources aim to help teachers and staff to deliver effective drug education, enabling conversation and preventing drug related death.
Schools, Colleges, Drugs and Decisions: A Pack for Teachers covers effective drug policy, how to deliver drug education across a whole-school PSHE plan and how to deal with losing a student to drugs.
Drugs, Decisions and Difference: Neurodiversity and Drug Use in Young People addresses the differences in the effects and risks of drugs for neurodiverse children – including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and other diagnoses. It explains how to do drug education well with special educational needs and disabilities students.
The Office for National Statistics estimated that three million people in the UK took illegal drugs in the year since March 2020, including 21% of all 16- to 24-year-olds.
Written by Fiona Spargo-Mabbs of the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation, the resources build on an earlier drug education resource, I Wish I’d Known, which Fiona wrote following the death of her son, Daniel from an MDMA overdose aged 16.
“My hope is that parents, teachers, and anyone parenting, working, or caring within the wonderful, rich diversity of young people, will come away from reading the book, and these materials, better informed, better equipped, and more confident to help the young people in their lives navigate the decisions about drugs that come their way safely.”
The Office for National Statistics estimated that three million people in the UK took illegal drugs in the year since March 2020, including 21% of all 16- to 24-year-olds.
About Schools, Colleges, Drugs and Decisions: A Pack for Teachers
About Drugs, Decisions and Difference: Neurodiversity and Drug Use in Young People
About I Wish I’d Known (the original book that the three packs supplement)
Each of these packs are available, online, from Thursday 4 August, on the John Murray Learning Website. Each pack is priced £3.99. The book retails for £14.99.
