The drug education charity’s Safer Choices programme will enable young people to learn about communication and staying safe strategies [DATE] The Daniel Spargo-Mabbs (DSM) Foundation is proud to announce that they are now an Approved Activity Provider (AAP) for the Skills section of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE). The Safer Choices programme, run by […]
Data out last week shows the number of under 18s in drug and alcohol treatment in 2023-24 has risen by 16% from the previous year. To the extent this reflects an increase in numbers accessing the professional support they need, this is good. To the extent it represents a significant increase in numbers of children
Increase in young people who use drugs seeking treatment – good or bad news? Read More »
The DSM Foundation has partnered with Lumina Publications, with £1 from every sale of Flora Dunn’s ‘Summer at Tillingford Hall’ going to the charity to support its drugs education work. This is the first time the DSM Foundation has embarked on such a partnership, having been approached by the author Primavera Moretti (who writes as
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The Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation’s universal drug education programme is to be evaluated as part of an innovation project funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The research is one of four innovation projects aimed at helping to reduce the use of drugs such as cannabis, ecstasy, nitrous oxide and powder cocaine
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We are delighted to announce that we are going to be on the BBC Radio 4 Appeal! This is an amazing opportunity for us as a charity to reach new people and raise a significant amount of money, particularly as we have £12,000 of matched funding available.  As the founder and director of the
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A lot of the work we do at the DSM Foundation is around social norms: the context young people find themselves in when it comes to drugs. The reason this is front and centre for us is because reality is often quite far from what people think, and that’s true for the adults in young
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The latest NHS Digital ‘Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People in England’ survey, which as a drugs education charity we reference frequently in our provision, was published today. Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, director and founder of the drugs education charity the DSM Foundation, comments: “It’s so encouraging to see the numbers of 11-15 year olds
Survey data from just under 5,900 15-18 year olds gathered by drug education charity the DSM Foundation has shown that 95 per cent of respondents say that vaping is one of the main substances used by their peers, and over 75 per cent name it as a substance that they think is causing their peers
The DSM Foundation is delighted to be accepting bookings for the next sessions in its Open Webinar series! On September 10th, again at 6-7pm, DSM Foundation founder and director Fiona and drug educator Sam will be delivering a general drugs awareness session for parents and caregivers who are part of a school
Book now for the DSM Foundation’s open webinars in September! Read More »
The 2023-24 academic year has seen the DSM Foundation piloting a comprehensive programme of drugs education in a number of schools in the Grampian region of Scotland. An interim report from the University of Aberdeen, which is conducting an evaluation of the pilot, has shown overwhelmingly positive outcomes and feedback, ahead of the full report
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