In response to to the  report from the RSA  on Drug Use National Director Stephen Burgess wrote to the Mail who featured the report.

Drug Education for Children IS working.

From our experience teaching nearly a million children a year across Britain, we at Life Education Centres know that drug education is working - at least when delivered by specially trained teachers.

Despite the rapid drop in price of drugs over recent years and their increased availability to children, this has not resulted in more children using them. On the contrary, as The Schools Survey (DH 2006) shows, in the last year there was in fact a fall from 6.7% to 4.9% of young people reporting any drug use.

Stephen Burgess, National Director, Life Education Centres

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