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What are the best ways for preventing drug abuses?

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Question added by Fazlul Hoque , Assistant Director , DoF,GoB
Date Posted: 2013/08/23
Rasha ahmad
by Rasha ahmad , متدرب , الدرويش لخدمات المياه والبيئة.

Through community participation in the awareness of the dangers of addiction and knead comes after conducting studies and research to find out the reasons and motivations and processed concerted all segments of society

Shivani Sharma
by Shivani Sharma , Manager , none

Hi - People who are emotionally not stable and disturbed, sometimes falls in to such crimes, drug abuse is happening almost everywhere, the best way to prevent is to know the reasn behind drug addiction, when reasons are known, counseling of the person is required specially the mental standards, psychatrist can help them out, someone who is close to the person can also handle efefctively to prevent it......

Fazlul Hoque
by Fazlul Hoque , Assistant Director , DoF,GoB

Drug use prevention programmes could be effective when they respond to the needs of a community, involve all the relevant sectors and are based on scientific evidence.
Effective Drug use prevention programmes should also incorporate strong monitoring and evaluation components.
Such programmes are also cost effective.
It has been shown that, for every dollar spent, good programmes for the prevention of drug use among youth can save up to10 dollars! Drug prevention in our society could be done from the three major places as briefly described bellow:       1.
Drug use prevention programmes from families:   Evidence-based family skills training programmes have been found to be the most effective way to prevent substance use among children and adolescents.
These programmes target the whole family and offer skills-building for parents on monitoring and supervision of children's activities, communication and setting age appropriate limits.
Evidence-based family skills training programmes have been found to be the most effective way to prevent substance use among children and adolescents after nurse home-visitation programmes.
These programmes target the whole family and offer skills-building for parents on monitoring and supervision of children's activities, communication and setting age appropriate limits.
  Children learn personal, social and communication skills, and at the end of each session families come together to practice new skills as a family unit.
These programmes improve  family functioning, organization, communication and interpersonal relationships and have been found to have multiple positive outcomes for children and adolescents including decreased alcohol and drug use, increased child attachment to school and academic performance, decreased child depression and aggression, increased child social competence and pro-social behavior and decrease d family conflict.
In addition these programmes have been found to be cost-effective.
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Drug use prevention programmes from Schools:   Schools have been an important setting for drug prevention place to reach many children and adolescents with prevention activities.
Evidence-based drug education based on life skills that offer personal, social, resistance and communication skills, as well as information about the short-term effects of drugs through a series of session offered by trained teachers.
For a long time schools have been an important setting for drug prevention place to reach many children and adolescents with prevention activities.
Evidence-based drug education based on life skills that offer personal, social, resistance and communication skills, normative education about how many of the peers in the adolescent age group actually have tried alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs (which typically is a lot less than adolescents think it is!), as well as information about the short-term effects of drugs through a series of session offered by trained teachers who use interactive techniques to engage the young people are very effective.
It is important that schools have a written policy on alcohol, tobacco and substance use that covers all students and staff working in schools.
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Drug use prevention programmes from Workplace:   Drug prevention societies have many years of experience in working with employers and employees together to develop and implement policies against substance abuse in the workplace.
Such policies are designed to promote the health of employees by preventing substance abuse and assisting those with a drug dependence problem.
UNODC has many years of experience in working with employers and employees together to develop and implement policies against substance abuse in the workplace.
Such policies are designed to promote the health of employees by preventing substance abuse and assisting those with a drug dependence problem.
Moreover, through such policies employers can achieve substantial savings by reducing absenteeism and increasing productivity.