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SP.Valencia free of drugs

Oct 21, 2018 by

SP.Valencia free of drugs

The Valencia Sin Drogas Educator (Spain) Alfredo had a very active lecturing month. This started with a drug prevention lecture in a school to 30 youngsters, providing them with the true facts on what drugs really are. And by raising the awareness on the harming effects of drugs the youth can now make an informed decision regarding using the drugs and in addition they will contribute to protect their family and friends. Another lecture was gathering a hundred of attendees representing no less than 15 Municipalities with a public representative of all ways of life such as politicians, educators, teachers, pedagogues, psychologists, public safety and health officers and more.                                                    ...

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Paris: Prevention for Health Protection...

Oct 20, 2018 by

Paris: Prevention for Health Protection

The Say No To Drugs France team had been invited to held a booth about the danger of drug use at an Health Forum organized by the City Council of a Paris suburban city. This was a great opportunity for the team to meet with youngsters and adolescents, parents, teachers and educators from different associations and explain to them factually what is a drug, why and how it is easy to become a drug addict and then the subsequent destructive effects of the drugs on the individual and beyond that,  the problems they created in the family cell and indirectly at the societal levels. Thus more than 60 youth got the point on the harmful effects of drug use.  It was very interesting to note the great interest and attention shown by the youth...

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SNTD Be at the Third Youth Fair of Dour...

Oct 11, 2018 by

SNTD Be at the Third Youth Fair of Dour

The Say No To Drug Team of Belgium (SNTD) was invited to participate to the 3rd Youth Fair of Dour. The purpose was to have a family, educative, constructive and playful day gathering altogether children, teens and parents. No less than 10 organizations and associations were represented with booths dedicated to Education, Work, Fashion and also Police, Defense and Firefighters. All were proposing different animations. The SNTD booth had also its success not only with the youngsters but also with the parents trying the two special glasses mimicking the behavior of a person under alcoholic beverage influence and another one who has smoked cannabis… As a result, beside the 525 booklets The Truth About Drugs and 18 educative and documentary DVDs, seven Education Packages* were ordered by associations. A Scout group also ordered its...

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CZ.Drug Education & Prevention...

Sep 28, 2018 by

CZ.Drug Education & Prevention

The Say No To Drug (SNTD) Team of Czech  Republic organized a distribution in the center of Pilsen where they distributed about 1200 booklets The Truth About Drugs, to raise the awareness of the passers-by on the harmful effects of drugs. They had the surprise to get in touch with a man who was using and « cooking » Crystal meth in the past. Interested he took the booklet and came back a bit later asking for more booklets on Crystal Meth to give to friends who were using this highly addictive drug leading to aggression, violent or psychotic behavior. Meanwhile, another SNTD team member did a lecture in a school of Melnik. The 23 students were very interested to learn about what is a drug and how a drug induces addiction. The lecture was utterly...

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Drugs & Prevention in Europe 5th European Meeting – Brussels...

Sep 27, 2018 by

Drugs & Prevention in Europe 5th European Meeting – Brussels

On 18 September 2018 was held the 5th European Meeting on Drugs & Prevention in the library of the Cercle des Voyageurs located 18 rue des Grands Carmes, 1000 Brussels. The Meeting was organized by the Foundation for a Drug Free Europe* (FDFE) in partnership with Dites Non à la Drogue Belgique* and Foundation for a Drug Free World* which kindly provided the educative materials. There were about 40 attendees coming from Embassies, Permanent Representations and Civil Society Organisations to hear about the last news about the drug problem in Europe. The theme was: Knowing, Understanding and Solving the Drug problem in Europe. After a Welcome and an Overview of the drug problem in Europe by the FDFE Representative, based on the last EMCDDA and UNODC 2018 Reports, the FDFE V/President did a very...

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