ID tag is 5
A useful tool for categorising drugs and their effects
Website with downloadable tools
Professionals, Parents and Carers and Young People
The Drugs Wheel
via website
Drugs and NPS
Mark Adley in association with DrugsWatch
n.d. – often updated
15/03/2021
The British Red Cross wants you to feel confident and willing to give first aid. Everyday First Aid makes it easy to learn the skills you’ll need to help in an emergency.
website with videos
Professionals, Parents and Carers, Young People
British Red Cross, First Aid
British Red Cross
n/a
n.d.
15/03/2021
Scotland’s Drugs Information Gateway
website
Professionals, Parents / Carers, Young People
Know the Score
via website, phone line, or live chat
Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs
Know the Score
n/a
n.d.
15/03/2021
Drugs and Alcohol information Leaflet – HADP
Leaflet containing drug alcohol information
(please note this resource contains outdated alcohol unit guidance)
Drugs and Alcohol
Parents and Carers, Professionals, Young People
Drug & Alcohol Information
Stay Safe Make Sure You Know the Facts
HADP
Alcohol, Drugs
Highland Drugs and Alcohol Partnership
n/a
n/a
n.d.
15/03/2021
This Fact Sheet has been produced by NHS Highland Health Improvement & Highland Council Trading Standards.
PDF Document
Parents and Carers, Young People, Professionals
Tobacco and the law fact sheet
HC Trading Standards or NHS Highland
Tobacco
Highland Council and NHS Highland
None
September 2019
15/03/2021
Are our kids suffering from our hangovers?
Alcohol today is more affordable, more available and more heavily marketed than at any time during the past thirty years. The result is that Scots are drinking too much. The more we drink, the more the health and social problems caused by alcohol increase.
PDF Leaflet
Parents and Carers
Alcohol Focus Scotland
Alcohol Focus Scotland
None
None
15/03/2021
FRANK helps you find out everything you might want to know about drugs (and some stuff you don’t). For friendly, confidential advice, Talk to FRANK.
website and support
Professionals, Parents / Carers, Young People
Talk to Frank
via website
Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs
Talk to Frank
n/a
n.d.
15/03/2021
How to stop smoking and stay stopped
Booklet with tips and advice on how to stop smoking and stay stopped
Booklet / leaflet
Professionals, Parents / Carers, Young People
How to stop smoking and stay stopped
NHS Health Scotland
NHS Health Scotland
n/a
n/a
October 2016
15/03/2021
Talking to your child about ‘legal highs’ – 10 top tips
A PDF leaflet for parents / carers
leaflet
Talking with you child about ‘legal highs’ – 10 top tips
via Re-Solv website
Drugs
Re-Solv
n/a
n.d.
15/03/2021
What to do if your student son or daughter is taking drugs
An article in the Guardian from 2015 that gives advice to parents whose student young people are taking drugs. It reassures parents there are steps they can take, and encourages open communication. A variety of harm reduction strategies are described.
newspaper article
Parents / Carers
What to do if your student son or daughter is taking drugs
The Guardian
Drugs
The Guardian
n/a
24/04/2015
10/02/2023