Drugs education: a glimmer of light

Reviews the influences on drugs education, including the impact of some of the author′s personal experiences on his own practice. Describes how, working as a drugs education co‐ordinator as one of the community drug team, the author has helped to broaden the remit of the agency from a service directed largely at older opiate users to one that embraces the needs of young recreational drug users. Relates how, in an era of diminishing resources, the team has developed an emergency strategy of delivering drugs education to schools by running one‐day and half‐day conferences for pupils. Concludes that these have had some success,despite the traditional reluctance to use “one‐off”approaches in health education.