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We encourage you to be involved!!! Scroll down the page for details of what you can do ..... write now. Write to your local newspaper editors. Write to your local members of parliament. Also visit our You Can Make a Difference page. Here are some of the key issues being raised. * Eliminate the misleading use of the terms 'recreational drugs' and 'soft drugs'. * Call for the national policy to be focussed on comprehensive prevention of harm. * Emphasise the need to focus all means possible on the prvention of induction to addiction. * Encourage police to take all drug use and drug related crime seriously as a high priority and see it as an opportunity to break the addiciton cycle for users and prevent induction to addiction of our local youth. * Put more money into treatment and rehabilitation that focus on getting people drug free and review harm management programs that have not only failed their own goals but also failed the Australian people. * Withdraw money from treatment and rehabilitation programs that cannot show outcomes relevant to getting people drug free. * Reject any sort of smoking or eating of cannabis / marijuana and protect patients by ensuring all medicines pass valid and strict medical protocols such as the Cochrane Collaboration and peer reviewed studies. * Call for more compassion to be shown by our political leaders, especially for the suffering children of addicts. Children who are often neglected and who deserve better from a society who should put their welfare high on our national priorities. CONTINUE BELOW FOR LETTER WRITING TIPS Please note these are external site and are referred to as they provide a useful commentary on action you can take. Visit : http://youth.adventist.org.au/advocacy/ and http://youth.adventist.org.au/advocacy/mediacampaign.html Also see : http://www.saltshakers.org.au/html/P/14/B/140/ for more tips |
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If you have some examples we'd love to let others know what you are doing. Here's once campaign that's happened in the past few days. 1. On receiving the Youthgas update (see copy below) a message was sent to encourage letters to be written to media and politicians about their attitudes and word use. 2. This campaign within a few days, got the necessary information to a wide ranger and geographic spread of people to assist them in letting their voice be heard.
----- Original Message ----- Can I please encourage you (URGENTLY AT THIS TIME) to write to the Premier, bob.carr@www.nsw.gov.au and importantly to this is an issue where both sides of politics seem to clearly identify the public&Mac226;s demands, but its good to remind them of what you&Mac226;ve got to say. and for community initiatives and programs promoting the anti-drug and pro-family messages (their contact details will be posted to our website next week) senior government Ministers that make it plain and clear and stand up for the need to prevent drug abuse, support the family and send a clear message about that stand. but particularly on the children for it is the children who suffer he most horrors of neglect and abuse due to drugs. (which we also raised in media statements earlier this week) Minister for Industrial Relations, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for the Central Coast for the Indigenous Australian&Mac226;s Theme Day of National Drug Action Week 2003. Indigenous community-based projects for Drug Action Week. responding to their drug and alcohol issues with innovative ideas and events. School Bus Program,‰ Mr Della Bosca said. anti drug and alcohol messages. The project is a joint partnership between the Aboriginal Taskforce Network and the bus companies of Kiama, Nowra and Sussex Inlet. convey the right messages,‰ Mr Della Bosca said. Drug Action Week is held in June each year to raise awareness about alcohol and other drugs and to promote the achievements of those who work to address drug issues. of the week,‰ Mr Della Bosca said. drug and alcohol use and celebrating the many achievements as part of Drug Action Week.‰ Koori Family Matters is a family booklet which outlines valuable ways on how to approach drug issues in Aboriginal families. It has been developed for parents, carers and other adults in a position to influence young people. It is an extension of the Family Drug Information Kit launched late last year. with anti cannabis messages to encourage discussion amongst the indigenous youth community. This week, Mr Della Bosca presented certificates to the young people who were involved in the development of the thought provoking posters. I would personally like to acknowledge the contribution the young people of Brewarinna have made to the state-wide cannabis campaign,‰ said Mr Della Bosca. the interests of the alcohol and drug field. It runs Drug Action Week to raise awareness of the problems associated with drug abuse and to identify ways to better address them. but also highlights the work that still needs to be done in order to reduce the disproportionate levels of alcohol and other drug-related harm experienced by Indigenous Australians." |
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