| The Kettering based charity SOLVE IT has announced it is organising
a major conference on solvent and volatile substance abuse in
November.
The conference - entitled 'Confronting Forgotten Substances'
- will take place at the Diamond Conference Centre, near Rushden,
in Northamptonshire, on November 13, and will tackle the issues
of how to raise the awareness of the dangers of solvent abuse.
Said SOLVE IT's head of marketing and fund raising, Steve
Lambert: "This is going to be a big event for us, and
we're all really looking forward to a successful and constructive
day.
"We think it's really important to raise awareness of
what is a very serious problem - there are stil far too many
people who believe the issue of solvent abuse was a problem
in the 1970's and 80's, but one that has miraculously disappeared.
"Far from it - 5 people a month are losing their lives,
some of them very young, because of volatile solvent abuse,
and our mission is to prevent this wasteful loss of life." |
