The Foundation for a Drug-Free World is encouraging parents to give their tweens and teens a new kind of stocking stuffer this Christmas—and it’s free. It’s a packet of drug education booklets that kids actually like, called “The Truth About Drugs.”
The Foundation for a Drug-Free World is encouraging parents to give their tweens and teens a new kind of stocking stuffer this Christmas—and it’s free. It’s a packet of drug education booklets that kids actually like, called “The Truth About Drugs.” Made in a youth-friendly, pocket-sized format, the booklets provide straightforward facts from national and international sources and meet head on the problem of how to talk to kids about drugs.
“Drugs are at the root of many of the problems we face today,” said Julieta Santagostino, the Director for the Florida chapter of the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, the non-profit secular organization that publishes the booklets. “Arming kids with relevant facts about drugs isn’t just a nice thing to do, it’s a vital part of keeping them happy and healthy.”
The Truth About Drugs packet contains a series of booklets on the most commonly abused drugs: alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, ecstasy, cocaine and crack cocaine, prescription drug abuse, methamphetamine, heroin and LSD.
Nineteen year-old Spencer Barnes, the Youth President of the Florida Foundation for a Drug-Free World, says they debunk what kids hear on the street about drugs. “If you don’t know better, when someone tells you a drug will make you cool, help you forget your problems or make you one of the guys, it might seem worth the risk,” said Barnes. “That’s why informative drug education is vital and why these booklets are straight talk—things that pushers and others who want you to do drugs don’t say,” said Barnes.
“Teens like these booklets because they don’t just tell you to say ‘no’,” said Barnes. “They say what each drug does with real stories from people who have been there -- its not preaching but the facts.”
To get a free Truth About Drugs packet, you can order them online at www.drugfreeworld.org.
“Drugs are at the root of many of the problems we face today,” said Julieta Santagostino, the Director for the Florida chapter of the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, the non-profit secular organization that publishes the booklets. “Arming kids with relevant facts about drugs isn’t just a nice thing to do, it’s a vital part of keeping them happy and healthy.”
The Truth About Drugs packet contains a series of booklets on the most commonly abused drugs: alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, ecstasy, cocaine and crack cocaine, prescription drug abuse, methamphetamine, heroin and LSD.
Nineteen year-old Spencer Barnes, the Youth President of the Florida Foundation for a Drug-Free World, says they debunk what kids hear on the street about drugs. “If you don’t know better, when someone tells you a drug will make you cool, help you forget your problems or make you one of the guys, it might seem worth the risk,” said Barnes. “That’s why informative drug education is vital and why these booklets are straight talk—things that pushers and others who want you to do drugs don’t say,” said Barnes.
“Teens like these booklets because they don’t just tell you to say ‘no’,” said Barnes. “They say what each drug does with real stories from people who have been there -- its not preaching but the facts.”
To get a free Truth About Drugs packet, you can order them online at www.drugfreeworld.org.
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Drugs are bad because...
10.12.2008 06:49
Itsme
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10.12.2008 09:32
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why is this here?
10.12.2008 09:45
riotact
Cult front
10.12.2008 10:02
Yup, it's a Scientology front group like Narcononon. Very bizarre that they'd be plugging themselves on Indymedia.
Frankly, would rather my kids dabbled in drugs than such an dangerous cult with a history of fraud, persecution and mistreatment.
Norville B
what group
10.12.2008 10:08
I have looked at these sort of booklets in the past,and the money spend on this sort of anti drug culture and free world,is a waste of money.
Start by getting rid of drink first, i suspect government earn to much revenue from this.
Governments do not want our streets free from drugs,who would they be giving the asbo to
Davey
Understanding the wider significance of the "drugs war"
10.12.2008 11:52
Furthermore, all people need better unbiased information about the drugs war, and how the tough penalties in the US system is keeping a predominantly black section of the populace in a poverty-stricken underclass. This serves elite interests very well - not only does it help keep money badly distributed throughout the country, it also helps to build the prison/military complex which keeps ordinary Americans afraid. To some extent this pattern is repeated throughout the rest of the "free world".
It is some many times more cost-effective (I think the factor is 10 times) to treat addicted drug-users than to engage in anti-drugs military activity or aerial crop-poisoning, as has happened in Colombia and elsewhere. Chomsky's writing has much to offer on this point, and yet this information remains substantially well concealed in the media "debate" on offer to the US and European public. It is of note that the CIA has been caught drugs-smuggling themselves, yet this fact rarely enters the discussion either.
We need to start recognising that the drugs war was lost a long time ago, and that criminalising large sections of a population for the use of drugs acts in very specific capitalist interests. Unfortunately these policies get substantial support from US/UK voters for genuine (if misguided) concerns over health and crime i.e. the discussion as it is framed persuades people to vote against their own interests (it worsens drug problems and it worsens crime). It should be noted that many countries who have implemented severe criminal policies against drugs have done so due to US pressure rather than an undiluted concern for the health of their citizenry.
Lastly, messages about the futility of the war on drugs should ideally penetrate the mainstream debate, so that drugs of all kinds can eventually be decriminalised. Such a position is of course a long way from the right-wing tabloids, but with some persistence, messages of this kind can be used to counter the elite messages that are currently prevalent. Since they are keen to present "straight talk", I wonder if Julieta and Spencer would care to update their leaflet with this information?
[Note to IMCers - please don't delete this story - the comments will balance the article out and it's great anti-propaganda food for search engines]
Jon