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, Not Addiction, The Policy Priority

It  is difficult for many people to reconcile concerns about drugs with what our governments do on drug policy, particularly on illicit drugs when the law gives the issues quite a wide berth.

In fact in NSW today you are more likely to get fined for smoking tobacco in a public place than smoking illegal marijuana.

But why is that?

The answer is actually quite simple.

The campaign to legalise and normalise substance abuse and addiction has been a long running and far reaching one that now has grabbed the attention and interest of most government advisors who are both misguided and misinformed on this issue.

It is funded by many people including one of the world’s richest men and the people involved use arguments that despite being flawed, are hard to ignore for anyone who fails prey to the misdirections and false evidence.

Like the argument for injecting rooms claiming they save lives.

The fact is that helping addicts to not use harmful drugs saves lives and improves health.

(*see note)

The fact is that most registered injecting room users inject elsewhere for most of their injecting episodes.

The fact is that injecting rooms  refer addicts to government subsidised methadone clinics to maintain their addiction and ongoing drug use, does not save their life.







...Turn It Up.

I'm Michael Robinson

*Note

Preventing drug use and addiction in the first place, saves lives, many drug addicts who use injecting rooms do so on rare occasions, Despite thousands of registered drug users, the injecting room sees a small number of them visit every day. The remaining addicts inject elsewhere for most of their injections, which is the argument for having an injecting room in every suburb.

Instead what Australians need the drug policy to focus on is prevention, and helping addicts to recover not focus on maintaining addicts in their addiction.

We need to make prevention a priority, not an afterthought after the campaign to legalise drugs.

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