Drug Cards

Each card provides information about one particular drug: its effects, risk, harms, costs, methods of use and the law applied to it. The cards are suitable for young people, parents, drug users, professionals, service providers and the general reader. Ideal for use as a training resource. Photographs and text updated regularly. 19 cards available.

Size: Each card 112 x 156mm

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Mini Drug Cards

Six collectable cards suitable for young people aged 13 and upwards, providing key information about the effects, risks and legal status of substances - they are eye-catching and popular with young people. Available in packs of 6 x 100 only.

Size: Each card 84 x 54mm

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Drugs and the Law

Essential reading for anyone who uses illegal drugs or provides information about them. This comprehensive leaflet offers detailed information on the legal aspect of drugs. It covers the classification of illegal drugs, penalties for possession, supply and using drugs on premises. Specific information is given on cautions for those over and under 18 years old. Also includes information on growing and producing drugs, driving, drug testing and detecion periods.

Size: Each leaflet 105 x 148mm - 16 pages

Related Publications:

Drugs And The Law - A Guide for Young People

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3D Drug Information Pack

Developed for young people aged 10-14 (key stage 2+3), the pack of five 3D cards with a pair of 3D glasses in a resealable bag is fun to use and effective in promoting discussion on alcohol, tobacco, solvents and illegal drugs, both at home and in more formal learning environments.

Size: Each card 154mm x 110mm - 5 cards and 1 pair of 3D glasses in each resealable bag

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Informed

Targeted at young people aged 13-17 (key stage 3+4), who are vulnerable to or are using substances. This booklet gives information on alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, LSD and solvents, and lists the methods of use, effects and problems associated with each substance.

Size: Each booklet 147 x 60mm - 28 pages

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S-Guide

The S-Guide provides information on sexual health and relationships for young people aged 13 and over (key stage 3+4). The booklet covers relationships, sex, sexually transmitted infections, contraception and drugs and travel; and provides a directory of national services that can provide further information on these issues. The information is reinforced by cartoon illustrations that young people will find informative and amusing. The S-Guide was produced in consultation with eduacation professionals and tested with young people. It can be made avaialbel to young people in a variety of settings as well as being used formally in the classroom and youth work-type settings.

Size: Each booklet 140mm x 100mm - 16 pages

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Get Ready - Health Information for Women

Health information designed for women who use drugs, this leaflet provides health information about drugs, pregnancy, periods and contraception. It also gives specific information about how drugs may affects appetite, diet and energy levels.

Size: Each booklet 118 x 118mm - 12 pages

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Protection - HIV

Provides essential information in a clear and concise way about the transmission and prevention of HIV. Suitable for anyone, it encourages people to consider potential risks and take steps to reduce them.

Size: Each leaflet 306mm x 102mm open - two folds to 102mm x 102mm

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Cannabis Booklet

Detailed information that highlights the effects, risks and problems of using cannabis, the most widely used illegal drug in the UK. Information is provided on respiratory risks and effects of cannabis on the memory and mental health. Includes practical advice for cannabis users on how to reduce risks from smoking, and how to cut down or stop using.

Size: Each booklet 148 x 110mm - 28 pages

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Cocaine Mirror

An eye-catching booklet providing information about cocaine and crack, their effects, and risks and harm related to methods of use. Essential harm reduction advice for anyone who uses cocaine and for those who provide services for users. Most suitable for those aged 16 and above.

Size: Each booklet 148 x 105mm - 20 pages

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It's a Fine Line

It’s a Fine Line aims to reduce risk-taking behaviour associated with cocaine use among young people aged 16 and over. The leaflet provides harm-reduction information on physical health, emergency action, mental health, debt, relationships, sex health and compulsion. Practical tips about controlling cocaine use are also provided.

Size: Each leaflet 420 x 105mm - four folds to 105mm x 105mm

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Heroin

Provides practical information for vulnerable young people who are at risk of becoming heroin users, for anyone who uses heroin and for those who provide services for users. Contains information about heroin, how it is taken, the effects, risks, harms, withdrawal and emergency action.

Size: Each booklet 105 x 105mm - 20 pages

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Crack Cocaine - Reduce the Risks

Crack cocaine is often thought of as the hardest drug to control. This leaflet explains why the use of crack cocaine can easily become compulsive. It can help crack cocaine users identify and reduce risks associated with different ways of using crack cocaine, and it provides practical tips on maintaining levels of self-control. Most suitable for those aged 16 and above.

Size: Each leaflet 683 x 150mm - six folds to 97 x 150mm

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Home Detox

Coming off heroin is often thought of as more difficult than maintaining a habit. This leaflet describes a strategy for coming off heroin at home. The simple step-by-step guide takes the reader through: (Step 1.) Preparation; (Step 2.) Cutting Down; (Step 3.) Stopping; and (Step 4.) Staying Stopped.

Size: Each leaflet 585 x 148mm open - five folds to 98 x 148mm

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Sleep

Contains comprehensive information for drug and alcohol users on getting enough sleep, a constant problem and major cause of relapse. Includes advice on how drugs (including alcohol) affect sleep, how much sleep people need and how to restore a normal sleep pattern.

Size: Each booklet 105 x 148mm - 12 pages

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Treatment Choices

A series of leaflets which provide professionals and service-users with information on treatment options for heroin dependency. This information can help treatment to be tailored to the individual.

Size: Each leaflet 313 x 148mm - 2 folds to 105 x 148mm

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Methadone And Your Body

This leaflet contains practical information about the effect that methadone can have on major organs and functions of the body, including the liver, bowels and teeth. It also informs methadone users when they should seek medical advice.

Size: Each leaflet 418 x 100mm open - three folds to 105mm x 100mm

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Methadone and Safety

Contains essential advice on the safe handling and storage of methadone, along with vital harm reduction information to help users avoid overdose.

Size: Each leaflet 418 x 100mm open - three folds to 105 x 100mm

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Hepatitis C

Contains information about the prevention, transmission and progression of hepatitis C and ways of slowing the disease down.

Size: Each leaflet 418 x 100mm open - three folds to 105 x 100mm

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HIT - A Guide To Safer Injecting

Provides essential harm reduction information for injecting drug users. A step-by-step guide to reducing the risks of injecting street heroin and the specific risks of preparing, sharing and injecting drugs. This leaflet will enable you to help injectors protect their health, assess their practice and make positive changes in their behaviour. Also ideal for use as part of a peer-support-group session. Includes up-to-date information about reducing the risk of illness or death from contaminated heroin and the risk of overdose.

Size: Each leaflet 590 x 140mm open - five folds to 99 x 140mm

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The Handbook Series

N.B. Free dispensing unit when one book is ordered in multiples of 50. The well-known series of four handbooks provide readers with easy-to-read, comprehensive information on methadone treatment, safer injecting, opiate detoxification and rehabilitation.

Size: Each booklet 147 x 209mm

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Hepatitis

Essential information for all drug users and their sexual partners on the prevention, transmission and progression of hepatitis B and C, with advice about vaccination against hepatitis A and B.

Size: Each leaflet 293 x 207mm open - three folds to 74 x 210mm

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Drugs And The Law - A Guide for Young People

This booklet provides information for young people aged 12 and upwards, about the law on drugs. It gives details on the legal classification of drugs, drug offences, drug penalties, with contact numbers for national advisory services . It also gives information relevant to those over and under 18 about the current law on cannabis.

Size: Each booklet 135 x 97mm - 16 pages

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Cannabis Law - Mini Information Card

This laminated mini-card provides information about the law relating to cannabis. Essentially, it gives the message that cannabis is and will remain an illegal drug. Cards sold in batches of 100.

Size: Each card 85 x 55mm

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Up Your Bum - An Alternative to Injecting

Encouraging injectors to switch to less risky forms of drug administration is a valuable harm-reduction approach for some individuals. The UYB leaflet, developed by drug users and health professionals, provides a step-by-step guide to taking drugs up the bum. It has undergone extensive risk-assessment analysis and focus testing with drug users. The leaflet is to be used on a one-to-one basis with injectors in needle exchanges, drug agencies and specialist treatment settings.

Size: Each booklet 100 x 148 mm - 8 pages

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In The Groin - Femoral Injecting

It can be difficult to know what to say to someone who is injecting in the groin, or thinking seriously about it. This fully-illustrated booklet is designed to help practitioners talk through the issues and provide easy-to-read harm-reduction information for femoral injectors.

Size: Each booklet: 120 x 120 - 20 pages

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Blunt Needle Card

This leaflet is highly effective in helping reduces sharing and re-use of needles. This handy credit-card sized leaflet gets straight to the point. Photographed with a scanning electron microscope, the image of a needle that had been just a few times graphically illustrates what a blunt needle looks like.

Size: Each card 170 x 55mm - one fold to 85 x 65mm

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Be Safe

Information for young people aged 11 and upwards (key stage 2 + 3). The content is in line with the government's recommendations for drug education with this age group. It includes information on medicines, tobacco, alcohol, and other substances. Written and designed in consultation with education professionals and tested with young people, this booklet is suitable for use as part of a lesson plan ir in less formal learning settings.

Size: Each booklet 112 x 156mm - 20 pages

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Young Women and Alcohol

Concern about young women's drinking behaviour is increasing. Excess drinking among young women can have serious implications for both their physical and mental health. This booklet is designed to increase young women's knowledge of the effects and risks of drinking alcohol. It gives advice about safer drinking levels, 'spiked drinks' and reducing vulnerability. It also explains what action to take in an alcohol-or drug-related emergency.

Size: Each booklet 105 x 145mm - 12 pages

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Drunk - Young Person's Guide to Alcohol

Alcohol use amongst young people is increasing. This booklet gives information designed to inform young people, aged 13 and upwards, of the effects and risks of drinking alcohol. It includes advice on how to reduce their risk-taking behaviour and vulnerability. It explains what action young people should take in an alcohol-related emergency and gives a directory of national advisory services.

Size: Each booklet 112mm x 130mm - 12 pages

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Drunk - Adult's Guide to Young People and Alcohol

This booklet accompanies the DRUNK booklet for young people and gives parents, carers and those who work with young people facts about how to approach the issue of alcohol use. It gives a directory of national advisory services.

Size: Each booklet 112 x 130mm - 12 pages

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Lifeguard - Users' Guide

Deaths from heroin overdose are preventable. This informative booklet is designed to show users that overdose can be avoided if they know what puts them at risk, the warning signs of overdose and what to do in an emergency.

Size: Each booklet 118 x 118mm - 16 pages

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Lifeguard - Family and Friends' Guide

Family and friends may not approve of someone's drug use - but knowing what to do in the case of an overdose can save a life. This booklet has been designed to provide the family and friends of users with information that will help them recognise the risks and signs of overdose and know what to do in an emergency.

Size: Each booklet 118 x 118mm - 12 pages

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A New Direction

Short-stay prisoners often receive little information about their drug use. Improving their knowledge about drugs is likely to have a positive impact on their health. This booklet provides facts on lowered tolerance, reducing health risks, including overdose prevention and advice on stopping drug use. It also gives contact information for national drug and sexual health advirsory services.

Size: Each booklet 105mm x 135mm - 16 pages

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Know Cannabis

Aimed at young people aged 14 and upwards, this comprehensive leaflet clarifies the laws around cannabis, highlights the health risks including long-term consequences and explains how methods of use impact on these risks. It gives practical advice on how to reduce or stop using cannabis, with details of the UK's first cannabis self-help website www.knowcannabis.org.uk

Size: Each booklet 105 x 74mm - 20 pages

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Blood-Borne Viruses

Aimed at injecting drug users, this easy-to-read, highly visual leaflet gives the facts on blood-borne viruses, how they are caught and how they can be passed on. It advises them how to reduce the risk of contracting a blood borne virus, how to get tested and information on where and how to get further help and advice.

Size: Each booklet 105 x 105mm - 12 pages

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Unity Do-It-Yourself Guide

Booklet providing peer education at dance events with a conceptual framework on how to develop, implement and evaluate a peer led intervention for club drug users. Published by Jellinek Prevention Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003.

Size: 147mm x 209mm

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What's the Deal On Grass? Cannabis Facts for Parents, Carers and Professionals (Updated Text July 05)

A comprehensive booklet about cannabis for parents and professionals. It provides information about a range of health, social and legal issues in a frequently-asked-question format, e.g. How is cannabis used? Is cannabis stronger than it used to be? Are there added risks to smoking cannabis as an adolescent? How long does it take for cannabis to leave the body? What effects does cannabis have on the body? How does cannabis affect the ability to drive? What effects does cannabis have on fertility and pregnancy? Does cannabis cause dependence? And is cannabis connected to mental health?

Size: Each booklet 147 x 209 mm - 12 pages

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What's the Deal On Grass? Cannabis Facts for Young People (Updated Text)

A very comprehensive booklet about cannabis, for young people aged 14 and upwards. It provides information about a range of health, social and legal issues in a frequently-asked-question format, e.g. Is cannabis stronger than it used to be? How long does cannabis stay in my body? What effects does cannabis have on my body? Is it dangerous to drive while I'm stoned? What if I am pregnant or want to have children? Does cannabis cause dependence? And is cannabis connected to mental health?

Size: Each booklet 147 x 209mm - 12 pages

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What's the Deal On Grass? Talking With A Young Person About Cannabis (Updated Text July 05)

A practical guide to enable parents, carers and friends to talk with a young person about cannabis in an effective and caring way. It presents information and practical tips presented in a simple and easy-to-read format.

Size: Each booklet 147 x 209mm - 20 pages

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What's the Deal On Grass? A Do-It-Yourself Guide

Designed to help people who wish to reduce or stop their cannabis use, this booklet encourages users to consider the 'pros' and 'cons' of their cannabis use, to identify reasons to reduce or stop using cannabis and to manage their problems associated with change in their cannabis use. It provides space for them to record their reasons for changing their cannabis use, their stopping date and personal high-risk situations. The booklet provides information about how to deal with high-risk situations, cannabis withdrawal and relapse prevention.

Size: Each booklet 147 x 209mm - 16 pages

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Out On The Town

This fold-out leaflet has been designed for young people aged 16 and upwards, visiting town or city centres for nights out. It gives ten tips for keeping safe, including information on drug use, binge-drinking, safer sex, drink-driving and avoiding violence. It gives a directory of national advisory services.

Size: Each leaflet 600 x 120mm open-four folds to 120 x 120mm

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Magic Mushrooms

Magic mushrooms have recently risen in popularity. This leaflet, for young people aged 14 and upwards, gives basic information on the effects and potential health implications of magic mushrooms. Up-to-date information is provided about mushies and the law.

Size: Each leaflet 420 x 105mm open - three folds to 105 x 105mm

Related Publications:

Magic Mushrooms - Stuff on Series

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Sex & Relationships - FAQs by people who have used drugs

Long-term drug use can effect many areas of a person's life. Designed for people who use drugs, have used drugs and for people who work with them. This leaflet is written in an easy-to-read 'problem-page' style and covers some of recurring problems that drug users may face in their sexual relationships.

Size: Each booklet 118 x 118mm - 12 pages

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Safety On The Street - Information For Sex Workers

Working on the streets involves many risks which must be highlighted in a realistic and non-judgmental way. This leaflet gives specific safety advice for sex workers including information on sexual health, drugs, personal safety, self-defence and law.

Size: Each booklet 140 x 117mm - 12 pages

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Lifeguard - Emergency Card

Everyone should know what to do in the case of an overdose emergency. This credit-card-sized leaflet illustrates emergency action in an easy, step-by-step format.

Size: Each leaflet 170 x 55mm - one fold to 85 x 55mm

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The New Primary School Drugs Education Pack

This manual brings together current thinking on good practice. Offering over 100 activities for use with KS1 and KS2 pupils. It explores drug facts, myths and attitudes while providing information on laws, safety and drugs, using a variety of approaches . The clear layout helps teachers review, plan and deliver drug education using a whole-school approach. Includes free Basic Drug Facts Card Game. ISBN: 1 873460 53 8

Size: A4 portrait manual - 172 pages

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Bullying Matters

This activity pack for 4-11 year-olds raises the issues of bullying and being bullied. The manual develops skills, attitudes, values, and the knowledge and understanding necessary for an effective anti-bullying programme through classroom activities. Supporting material offering guidance on using children's literature, list of organisations and websites. It supports the government's anti-bullying campaign 'Tell someone' (2003). Supported by Childline and the NSPCC. It includes over 80 activities for Key Stage 1 and 2, introduction to bullying issues, list of useful organisations and websites, guidance on using children's literature as an anti-bullying resource. ISBN: 1 87346024 4

Size: A4 portrait manual 102 pages