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Protecting Your Family

Parents Can Protect Their Children from a Worldwide Epidemic

New York – The U.S. is currently in the middle of its most costly anti-drug campaign in history, yet drugs are killing 15,000 Americans each year. The irony is that drug use is probably the world’s leading “preventable” health problem.

This is the message of hope now being circulated by the New York-based International Drug Awareness Research Foundation (IDARF) in the form of a poster that is increasingly making its way in homes. The poster is titled “The Self-Destructive Use of Drugs,” and it is being credited for helping spur the talk about drugs around kitchen tables and in classrooms in many countries around the world, and opening the communication channels between parents and teens that will persuade kids from using drugs. These are the new trenches from where mothers, fathers, educators and teens are joining forces to forge a bond of protective awareness.  Parents can receive this poster for free, paying only for packaging and shipping.

Experts worldwide agree that the most effective way to proof children from the harmful effects of using drugs is to shift the focus to prevention through increased and enhanced awareness and early education. Yet, finding the right words to help young people understand the many dangers related to drugs can prove a difficult task, and for parents, who are still their teens’ biggest influence, talking about drugs can be a tough job. “The Self-Destructive Use of Drugs” does it in plain language, using plain medical facts, displaying the mind-body drug connection in one powerful graphic that instantly and vividly summarizes the most commonly used drugs and their effects on the user.

The adage that “a picture is worth a thousand words” is so true when displayed in the family playroom or a teen’s bedroom, the poster acts as a constant visual reminder driving home the destructive effects of substance abuse in a straightforward, non judgmental manner.

The problem is that the international illicit drug trade is a $400 billion a year business. To put this staggering number in perspective, it roughly equals 8 percent of all world trade, and tops the GDP of industrialized countries like Sweden. According to a United Nations report, tobacco use globally is responsible for some 5 million deaths each year and if nothing else changes, the numbers will increase to 10 million annually by 2020.  Nearly 8,000 people are trying drugs for the first time every day.  The majority of new users are younger than 18 and more than half are female. Among U.S. teenagers and young adults alone, fatal drug overdoses have soared 113 percent.

New global coalition aims to unite and empower parents who are tired of watching children die as epidemic spreads worldwide

It’s numbers like that that prompted IDARF to launch a global coalition aimed at encouraging dialogue between parents and their teens about drug use.  The coalition also plans to influence governments and policymakers by petitioning for mandatory drug awareness and education.

How parents can receive their free poster and kit

IDARF researches, develops and distributes visual high-impact informative products designed to help government, communities, schools and parents drug proof children. Parents wishing to join IDARF’s Global Coalition of Parents for Drug Awareness, Prevention and Education, and receive their free poster and Parents Kit, can do so at www.idarf.org . A nominal $6.95 packaging and shipping fee will apply. “The Self-Destructive Use of Drugs” is acclaimed in over 100 countries and is available in many languages.

Media Contact:
Tom Zatylny
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