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 An updated range of leaflets are now available to download that keep you better informed about specific drugs (including alcohol), their legal status and their effects. As part of this range, we have included information on safer injecting as well as guidance on what you should do if someone overdoses.

You can download the range of leaflets, and find out how to order printed copies, here.

You may have read about Addaction  in the ‘Real Lives’ section of today’s Daily Mirror.

On our site, you can find out about our work with young people and with families.

You can also find if we have a service local to you.

We also produce information which you may find helpful. “Know what you’re talking about” is a new guide for familes.

It provides basic information and advice to parents and carers whose teenage children may be experimenting with drugs or alcohol.

It contains information on what to do in an emergency, how to talk about drugs with your teenage child and he effects (and legal status) of the most widely used drugs.

Addaction recognises that many parents don’t feel confident talking about drugs with their teenage children. But we also know that discussing the subject as a family can help stop young people getting into trouble. This guide gives parents basic information to make them more confident about raising the issue.

You can download a copy, or order printed copies from us, here.

Today’s Daily Mirror tells the story of a woman whose sister died as a result of her heroin addiction.

To run alongside the story, the Mirror asked us for advice and information about drugs and drug problems. You can read the full story, including this advice, on the Daily Mirror’s website.

With the University year starting, Addaction were asked a few questions about the risks of drinking too much. Here’s what we said…

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