Against All Drugs
Not because of this day is International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, but today we carry on great burden to prevent this evil from our friends, families and kids. Be a real friend. If you know someone with a drug problem, be part of the solution. Urge your friend to get help. Do the smart thing. Using drugs puts your health, education, family ties, and social life at risk.
If you think "everybody's doing it," you're wrong! Doing drugs won't make you happy or popular or help you to learn the skills you need as you grow up. Face your problems. Using drugs won't help you escape your problems, it will only create more. Using drugs won't make you more famous than Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin, in fact, doing drugs can cause you to fail at all of these things. This disease doesn't care what you do. This disease doesn't care if you're a street sweeper or the President of United States, 'it will take you down if you've got it'. Be brave enough to speak out, and become role models who remind us that addiction is not a question of shame, but a cry for help.
If drug addiction is a disease, is there a cure? There is no cure for drug addiction, but it is a treatable disease; drug addicts can recover. Recovery is the most difficult thing you'll ever embark on in your life. But once again, Treatment Works but Prevention is Better. Are you ready to say NO to drugs? Just say NO...
Not today, not tomorrow. How about never?!
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