Who is the service aimed at?

If you are involved in designing, planning or working on drug prevention initiatives and need factual information, the NCCDP's Information Service is aimed at you. For youth workers, teachers, GPs, health service managers or government officials, the service aims to help those working directly on drug prevention initiatives make informed decisions about the most effective methods available.

How is the service delivered?

Answers are provided in association with a network of drug, health, policy and criminal justice specialists and will be evidence based. Information requests can be made via a dedicated telephone hotline, email, or by fax.

All responses will be made within 14 working days of the original request, by letter, email or fax. We will need full details of the question you wish researching and also some details of why you require it.

What can the service provide?

The NCCDP provides information on aspects of the drug use prevention evidence base: including the reasons why people take drugs, effective school and community based interventions currently employed in the UK and abroad, and how to turn evidence into practice.

Whilst we aim to answer all prevention related questions, we may on occasion be unable to respond to requests with too broad a remit.

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