Prevention of Addiction

Drug prevention generally begins in schools where drug education programs are initiated to children. Many programs lead to the “scare tactic” approach which usually does not work; it only leads to youth to wanting to try them anyway.

Narconon, a Drug Prevention & Rehabiliation organization, has created a new program which is more focused on speaking with the kids on their terms, not ours. Many of the speakers involved in the programs are former addicts themselves. They give a detailed account of their past experience with drugs leaving the child to form their own opinion of what drugs are like instead of telling them to “just say no”. Through Narconon’s educational programs they have found out reasons why kids decide to quit using drugs (for those who are already using them), why they change their minds to not try or use drugs and why they believe so strongly to not use or try drugs. The programs also use a more appropriate amount of humor in their presentations. They found that children respond better to the light-heartedness of the issue, although they still know what a serious issue it is.

Prevention of drug use is a hard issue to face. There are several programs out there geared towards children and young adults to help them make the right decision on using or trying drugs. However, there are still many who experiment with them, regardless of everything they know about drugs, and who become who we know today as our drug addicts.

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