February 20th, 2024, saw a very special occasion for the DSM Foundation: an event marking the charity’s 10 year anniversary. Held at Dan’s secondary school, Archbishop Tenison’s C of E High School in Croydon, the event brought together individuals who have been with the organisation since its inception in 2014, through to those who […]
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The DSM Foundation is often approached for comment on news stories, but also for interview requests with Fiona. So when an opportunity presented itself for Fiona to tell her and Dan’s story to Chat, she agreed as long as she could include some advice for parents and caregivers on how to approach conversations about drugs
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Launching today (February 20th, 2024) is the Drug Education Forum (DEF), bringing together drug education providers, educators and practitioners from across the UK to uphold evidence-based standards, share best practice and provide a voice for the sector. A vital aspect of this is ensuring that all young people to have access to high quality, evidence-based
Parties and gatherings were named as the most common place for 15-18 year olds to obtain drugs by over three quarters of more than 2,100 young people surveyed. The data, collected by drugs education charity the DSM Foundation, highlights the risks there can be to young people from a lack of understanding that drug transactions
Any headline containing the phrase “super-strength street drugs” is attention-grabbing, and not in a good way. In recent months, such news stories have all seemed to be about the same group of substances: nitazenes. Nitazenes are often referred to as “synthetic opioids”, which makes them sound similar to fentanyl, oxycodone and tramadol, strong painkillers
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A hot topic of the moment is the use of vapes containing something other than the usual e-liquid. In a way, this isn’t anything new: a few years ago hundreds of cases of lung problems (including several deaths) in the US were mostly found to be associated with the use of vapes containing non-standard ingredients.
In 2020, concerned that there didn’t appear to be much data on young people’s exposure to drugs through social media, the DSM Foundation ran a survey on this very subject. Nearly 1,000 responses later, the scale of the issue started to emerge: over 20 per cent of respondents said they’d seen illegal drugs (including prescription
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The pre-workshop survey that we ask older students to complete always makes interesting reading, and it has put a new product firmly on our radar: nicotine pouches. If you haven’t heard of them, you aren’t alone. A 2022 ASH survey of over 13,000 adults found that nearly half weren’t aware of them, and most
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DSM Foundation founder and director Fiona Spargo-Mabbs featured on BBC Radio London’s breakfast show on November 20, 2023, kicking off a week’s focus on the borough of Croydon. Listen here to the interview,
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DSM Foundation founder and director Fiona Spargo-Mabbs was the subject of an “extraordinary people” series of episodes on Gabby Logan’s podcast The Midpoint. Interviewed the day after receiving her OBE from the King at Windsor Castle, the episode dropped on 13th September 2023, Fiona does a deep dive into Dan’s story and how she
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