How can parents protect their children from schoolies week dangers?

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A friend of mine commented last week that parents should not allow their children to go to the Gold Coast for schoolies week.

While I understand the point they were making, my reply to them was that once your children finish their HSC it is more than a little bit late to start exerting your parental influence over their decisions and actions.

In the early 2000’s I was executive director of a national drug education organisation.  We worked closely with other similar organisations around the world who took similar successful approaches helping parents over a lifetime of their children’s education and decision making.

In that time I coined a term pre-emptive prevention.

You can encourage someone to take drugs around friends so if something bad happens their friends will call an ambulance.  But That isn’t really prevention.  That is a drug use management tactic the government call harm reduction.

Pre-emptive prevention is about a lifetime of raising young people to have no desire to abuse their mind or their body with harmful, dangerous or addictive substances.

Pre-emptive prevention is an approach that families and communities use very effectively worldwide in many countries, what about here in Australia?

Turn It Up.

I’m Michael Robinson

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Make Prevention The Priority Not Addiction

... At the end of June each year Australia has a Government sponsored National Drugs Awareness Week this year it looks like activities are starting early with the usual suspects again calling for the legalisation of all drugs.

The arguments they continue to put forward, as they have done for decades, are critically flawed and based on nonsense.

First is their claim that if you can’t stop criminal involvement in drugs then you should legalising all drugs.

Here in Australia the government and big tobacco companies only recently released figures that criminals hold almost half of that legal addictive product’s market.

Then they say, make it a health issue and take law enforcement out of the mix altogether.
Well our society doesn’t work that way, there is always two sides of the coin with law enforcement as the stick when the carrot doesn’t work.

Finally they simply repeat over and over again that legalisation has worked in other countries when anyone who closely examines the evidence can see legalisation would sell out our youth to criminals and big companies to profit by getting more Australians addicted to more harmful products.

...Tell them to … 

... Turn It Up.

... I’m Michael Robinson

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