The Home Office and the Kent and Hertfordshire Drug Action Teams have produced a hugely useful training pack called Substance Misuse and the Workplace: Updated Training Pack (2005). This would be of use to any working group trying to form a policy.
The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) carried out a survey, published in 2007, of 505 UK companies about their workplace drugs and alcohol policies, the results of which are available here
CIPD have also produced comprehensive advice entitled Managing Drug and Alcohol Misuse at Work, A Guide for People Management Professionals, (2007)
West Sussex Drug and Alcohol Action Team produced a free and easy to use online resource on drugs and alcohol in the workplace.
A brief, but highly informative and well-designed set of advice from the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), Social Dialogue Forum (SDF), Alcohol, Drugs and the Workplace, (2004) is available here
Employment/ Personnel Advice
Trades Union Congress, Chapter 26 Health and Safety, Drugs and Alcohol (2008) available here
Unite the Union, (formerly Amicus and the Transport and General Workers Union), Drugs and Alcohol Policy: Negotiators’ Guide, (2004). This provides useful advice as well as current views and practices of the largest Trade Unions and certain public organisations.
Advice/Support Groups
FRANK (Helpline)
www.talktofrank.com
Tel: 0800 776600
ADFAM
www.adfam.org.uk
25 Corsham Street
London
N1 6DR
Tel: 020 7553 7640
Home Office
drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk
Home Office,
Direct Communications Unit,
2 Marsham Street,
London
SW1P 4DF
Tel: 0207 035 4848 (9am-5pm, Mon-Fri)
National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse
www.nta.nhs.uk
National Treatment Agency,
8th Floor, Hercules House
Hercules Road,
London SE1 7DU
Tel: 020 7261 8801
Drugscope
www.drugscope.org.uk
Drugscope,
Prince Consort House,
Suite 204 (2nd Floor),
109/111 Farringdon Road,
London
EC1R 3BW
Tel: 020 7520 7550
Alcohol Concern
www.alcoholconcern.org.uk
64 Leman Street
London
E1 8EU
Tel: 020 7264 0510
South East Regional Drugs Team
www.gose.gov.uk
Drug Team,
Government Office for the South East,
Bridge House,
1 Walnut Tree Close,
Guildford
GU1 4GA
Tel: 01483 882325
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