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This has to be known ! From Belgium...

Fév 16, 2019 by

This has to be known ! From Belgium

After having done on the very popular and friendly radio station Arabel (106.8 FM) a live presentation of the Truth About Drugs campaign developed in Belgium by the Say No To Drugs team, the in-charge of the campaign, Julie, held on February 15, a public conference-debate in the cultural center De Vaartkapoen of the Commune of Molenbeek/Brussels. The conference entitled Find out the Truth About the Drugs was previously announced on Radio Arabel and invitation flyers were distributed in the Molenbeek area. The public attending was composed of parents and youth, teachers, association directors, and some officials. The purpose was to explain what are the characteristics of a drug and how they affect the body and the mind. The lecture was well illustrated and made in an interactive way. It was followed by a...

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Cyprus away from drugs !

Fév 15, 2019 by

Cyprus away from drugs !

As many parents Stella Esmeralda was aware of the world drug problem but she really realized the danger her teenager children and the youth were facing when she found out that the child of a friend, a teenager, died from drug abuse and that some other teens of the neighborhood were using drugs. From there she took the responsibility to inform as broadly as possible the parents and the youth on the drug dangers. She was distributing prevention education booklets The Truth About Drugs, DVDs, doing lectures, using her artistic talents of music performer to spread a clear message about the drugs. « I saw that a simple but factual information raise the awareness on the harmful effects of the drugs and protect the youths and adults from the insidious reach of the dealers ». With...

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Prevention education in Czech Republic...

Fév 9, 2019 by

Prevention education in Czech Republic

Whether in: -a school of Brno with 105 youngsters (14 January), -the city of Prague/Praha – Vaclav Square (25 January), -the center of Pelhrimo (29 January), -the city centrum of Pilsen (1st February), -a school of Praha/Prague (5 February) to 70 children, there were no less than 2200 booklets distributed educating youth and adults on the harmful effects of drugs. The lectures in schools are so successful that now the most often they are yearly done in many of them. In addition, the team of lecturers is regularly opening new schools to drug prevention lectures. The youth, according the teachers, are very receptive to the information delivered, enabling them to discover the real facts or to correct any false data they had about the...

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Belgium: For a bright New Year 2019!...

Jan 9, 2019 by

Belgium: For a bright New Year 2019!

In December, the Say No To Drugs Team Belgium (SNTD.Be) wanted to make the Christmas time a real time for Harmony and Happiness in families, away of the drugs. So they set up their drug prevention booth on the Christmas market of Zemst. In this Municipality of the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, despite a rainy weather the SNTD team was contacted by many persons, including many mothers worrying about the propagation of the drugs in the country and affecting boys and girls. They were also visited by teachers and even a politician, very concerned by the drug problem and sad about the lack of political decision to confront the problem. A lady was very happy to find out about the education prevention materials available for free at the booth. She told that she...

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Geneva: “Punching” action against drugs...

Déc 27, 2018 by

Geneva: “Punching” action against drugs

While the Federal Council has completed last month a very specific consultation (Consultation on the draft amendment of the Narcotics Act and Ordinance on pilot tests within the meaning of the Narcotics Act), the association Say No to Drugs Geneva has decided to give its opinion on the ground with a distribution of drug booklets that took place from Geneva to Montreux, in shops and letter boxes. The policy of the four pillars of the Federal Narcotics Law (LStup, Article 1a) is clear. The first pillar is prevention, which clearly involves information and education. Unfortunately, it must be noted, without minimizing what is already being done, that prevention is being done too timidly. For Say No to Drugs, prevention means acting before problems occur by answering this question: how is physical and mental health...

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