{"id":21061,"date":"2024-10-11T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=21061"},"modified":"2024-11-13T14:14:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:14:36","slug":"drugs-and-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/preparing-for-adult-life-ages-14-25-years\/health-and-wellbeing\/health-support-for-young-adults\/drugs-and-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs and alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Young people often start to experiment drinking alcohol as they start to grow up, and some will try taking illegal drugs as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s really important to know how alcohol and drugs affect your body, and to recognise if any substance use is becoming a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drugs and alcohol support in Devon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthforteens.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Health for Teens<\/a> website has lots of information and advice if you&#8217;re looking for help with either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthforteens.co.uk\/lifestyle\/drugs\/\" rel=\"noopener\">drugs<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthforteens.co.uk\/lifestyle\/alcohol\/\" rel=\"noopener\">alcohol<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our adult social care website also contains information and advice about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/solutions\/alcohol-and-drug-support\/\">alcohol and drug support<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">School nurses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re aged 11 to 19 and are worried about your health and wellbeing, Devon&#8217;s school nurses are here to help you with a wide range of issues such as emotional health, relationships, self-harm, bullying, alcohol, healthy eating, drugs and smoking and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Text your school nurse on 07520 631722<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Y-Smart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The team at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.y-smart.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Y-Smart<\/a> support young people up to the age of 18, who have issues around substance use. Young people can be referred for support by a professional, or they can refer themselves for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people often start to experiment drinking alcohol as they start to grow up, and some will try taking illegal drugs as well. It&#8217;s really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":18520,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-21061","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 08:45:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21778,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21061\/revisions\/21778"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}