Adverse Drug Effects Term

The term Adverse Drug Event (ADE) refers to an injury caused to someone due to the intervention of medicine. Older people (65 years or older) go to emergency facilities about 450,000 times annually, twice as often as young people. Younger…

Preventing Mental Health Problems

Questions for schools: 1. What are the links between substance use and mental health issues? 2. Can we prevent mental health issues in children and youth people?   This paper intends to provide teachers, educators, and the wider school workforce…

European Drug Abuse Prevention (EU-DAP) trial

EU-DAP is a school-based project designed to prevent adolescents’ misuse of legal and illegal substances. Un-plugged is a program based on the development of life skills, adopting the more effective teaching techniques to involve students in an interactive curriculum designed…

Training & consultancy services

Mentor is a leading national charity working to build young people’s resilience in order to prevent harm, particularly in relation to substance misuse. Mentor-ADEPIS is recognised by leaders in education and government as the leading source of evidence-based information and…

Professional Development Course

The Mentor-ADEPIS Professional Development Course is a free training programme for professionals teaching alcohol and drug education to young people. The course is designed to support the development and delivery of alcohol and drug education by teachers and external providers, in schools as well…

Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT)

As part of the Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service (ADEPIS),  Mentor will be managing and further developing the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT), to ensure existing evidence-based and effective preventative programmes reach the mainstream educational settings.…

What works for schools

What does effective school drug education look like? A good place to start is The principles of good drug education – a summary of the principles that lie at the heart of good practice. The presentation below also sets out some of…