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ARM YOURSELF WITH THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS

DRUGS THREATEN THE LIVES OF YOUTH AND ADULTS IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
DRUG ABUSE CUTS DOWN PRODUCTIVITY, UNDERMINES MORAL STANDARDS AND CRASHES SCHOLASTIC PERFORMANCE.

Education plays a vital role in preventing drug abuse. How to talk to youth about drugs is often puzzling or appears impossible. This is why, for over twenty years, the largest community-based drug education program has been carried out worldwide. Based on experience gained over the years, we have created a new Truth About Drugs Education Kit. The kit contains ten well-researched pocket-size individual booklets with factual information about the most abused drugs, including real-life stories and a study guide.

The ten booklets and a study guide, packaged in a compact box, are the components of The Truth About Drugs Education Kit.

Production and distribution of the booklets and education kit are made possible through donations and sponsorships by private organizations — businesses, churches and civic organizations that care and want to do something about the economic and social consequences of drug use in their communities.

Governments have also provided funding to our affiliated organizations. By way of example, in New Zealand, a city council paid for the reprint of thousands of copies of one of the drug prevention booklets for distribution in their community. The Taiwanese Ministry of Education helped to finance the reprint of more than 100,000 copies of a booklet on ecstasy. The Ministry supports the program in several ways and children in hundreds of schools in the country have participated in drug education lectures as part of the “Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life” program. The result — ecstasy use dropped by 65 percent across all targeted age groups.

Effective drug education works. It saves millions of lives. It is our responsibility to ensure our children are empowered with all the facts so they can decide to lead a drug-free life. Start by getting The Truth About Drugs Education Kit into the hands of friends, family members, employees, teachers and students in your community, thereby saving lives.



Find Out the Truth About Drugs

Drug Education Booklets

About Ecstasy
Ecstasy is usually taken orally in pill, tablet or capsule form. Taking more than one at a time is called "bumping." Ecstasy is a synthetic drug made in a laboratory.... [ more ]
About Crystal Meth
Crystal meth and meth is inhaled or smoked. Low doses are in pill form. Crystal meth is a colorless, odorless form of methamphetamine. It resembles small fragments of glass or... [ more ]
About Joints
Cannabis is usually rolled up in a cigarette called a joint or a nail. It can also be brewed as a tea or mixed with food... Sixty percent of teenagers in drug treatment programs are there because of marijuana.... [ more ]
About Crack
Crack cocaine is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated. The most potent form in which cocaine appears, "crack" is also the riskiest... [ more ]
About Cocaine
Cocaine and crack cocaine can be taken orally, through the nose (snorted), intravenously, or, in the case of crack, through inhalation of the fumes from heating it... [ more ]
About Kiddie Coke
Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.... [ more ]
About Painkillers
Oxycodone is a powerful painkiller. It is the principal ingredient found in Oxycontin, Percocet and Percodan. It is a legal narcotic drug available by prescription to treat severe pain.... [ more ]
About Heroin
Heroin is usually injected, snorted or smoked. It is highly addictive. Heroin enters the brain rapidly but makes people think and react slowly, impairing their decision-making ability.... [ more ]
About LSD
LSD is sold in tablets, capsules or in liquid form. It is commonly added to absorbent paper and divided into small decorated squares. Each square is a dose. LSD is still one of the most potent... [ more ]
The Truth About Drugs
Drugs destroy millions of lives every year. Popularized in the 1960s...today they invade all aspects of society. The problem has many faces — from the college student partying for three days straight... [ more ]
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"My goal in life wasn't living...it was getting high. I was falling in a downward spiral towards a point of no return. Over the years, I turned to cocaine, marijuana and alcohol under a false belief it would allow me to escape my problems. It just made things worse. I had everything, a good job, money, a loving family, yet I felt so empty inside.

"As if I had nothing. Over 20 years of using, I kept saying to myself, I'm going to stop permanently after using this last time. It never happened. There were even moments I had thought of giving up on life."

- John

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