How can we help prevent drug use in our communities?

  • We need to ensure that drug prevention includes schools, workplaces, community centers, places of worship and families who unite to communicate an abstinence-based, healthy lifestyle.
  • Youth should be an essential part of prevention efforts.
  • Treatment that leads to elimination of drug use lets the addicted know that we have not given up on their lives; we care enough as a community to help them achieve their goals.
  • Communities should work together to increase activities that form an alternative to drug use, especially for our youth.