Each year the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime uses June 26th as the UN’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. This year the message was “Think Health, Not Drugs.”
The UNODC website provides the World Drug Report and a lot of information and tools for anti-drug campaigns around the world. This year’s event comes on the heals of news that the number of opiate addicts in Afghanistan have doubled, that drug cartel murders in Mexico have escalated and that prescription drug addiction is causing record overdose deaths in the United States.
As any local, national or international anti-drug campaign must have to be successful, the two main parts include effective drug prevention measures as well as successful drug rehabs and alcohol addiction treatment centers. Without these, it’s just a war.