Young people
Blueprint strategy
Good drug education is about giving information, challenging attitudes and developing a range of skills needed to make healthy choices about drug use. That is what the Blueprint programme was designed to do.
Blueprint adopted the definition of a drug used by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: a drug is a substance people take to change the way they feel, think or behave.
Blueprint considers drugs to include medicines, volatile substances, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and illegal drugs.
What is Blueprint?
Blueprint is a drug education programme involving 29 secondary schools in 4 LEA areas. Twenty three are adopting the programme while 6 continue with their existing drug education programme provide local context for the intervention group findings.
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Blueprint is evidence based
A comprehensive study of drug education programmes has identified the approaches that appear to be most effective. Blueprint used these proven methods and adapted them to fit the model of education in England.
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Blueprint is a multi-component programme
Evidence shows that combining school-based education on drugs with parental involvement, media campaigns, local health initiatives and community partnerships is more effective than school interventions alone.
