what do you need to hear to make you not try drugs?

Question

I am putting on a program to help educate people (between 16 and 25) about drugs. That it is not glamourous. to convince them not to try it. What would work for YOU? please speak for yourself. I understand that not everybody is going to respond no matter what you do. but some will.

Answer 1

do the drugs

Answer 2

The absolute best deterrent for drug experimentation is before and after photos of meth addicts...a picture says a thousand words, as the saying goes. There is nothing so horrific as seeing a handsome young person seemingly age 20 years in just 12 months, and the haggard face and missing teeth look more a Halloween mask than a real human being. You can say "drugs are bad and will mess you up" till you are blue in the face, but visual proof is what will really put the scare into anyone who thinks trying drugs is "cool" or "harmless".

Answer 3

Have them do some time volunteering at a homeless shelter or at a rehab centre.

Take a walk with them through a neighbourhood where "druggies" are known to hang out.

Take them to a hospital/institution where they can meet/see people who are suffering from addiction or their after effects.

Take them to a hospital and show them the babies who were born addicted because of their mothers drug addiction. Explain to them all the problems the baby is experiencing and may experience in the future.

Don't forget to include alcohol and prescription drug abuse in your program. Because of there acceptance by society and easy access, these drugs are the most abused. And the most dangerous!

Good luck and thank you for what you are doing to educate our young adults.

Answer 4

Youre contradicting yourself, just like every one of the other so-called drug education programs.

You CANT, and I'll repeat CANT call it "drug education" and then state that your purpose is to convince people not to try drugs.
If you want it to be true education, then you tell the facts. The straight, honest, no matter what repercussions it has (IE, people ending up trying the drugs in question) truthful, scientifically proven facts.

Anything else is propaganda.

And thats what "drug education" means today. It means anti-drug propaganda. And I think thats a damn shame. Instead of educating people on the real facts about drugs, the DEA, the D.A.R.E program, Abovetheinfluence.com and all the others use cheap scare tactics and misinformation. Why? Because their goal isnt education, its getting people not to try any drugs.

Back in high school I had to sit through a 2 hour presentation from the Philadelphia Heroin Force or whatever its called mascarading as "drug education". It was some of the most blatant propaganda I've ever seen. Two hours of crying families, sad music, distorted untrue "facts", pictures of dead bodies, etc. I'm sorry, but thats not education.

The result of that is that kids who are going to try drugs are going to anyways (and the ones who arent, arent), and what happens is that those who do try them have no idea what theyre doing, and that can be very dangerous.

Not to mention that once you lie or dont tell the entire truth about a drug, and the kid who sees your "education" figures out that you werent telling the truth, he'll never trust you again. Why do you think so many kids dont trust cops? Because the cops came to their schools and told them that if they smoked pot they would end up miserable heroin addicts living on the street, then they smoked pot, and guess what? No horrible ending, no misery, no death or living on the street. I dont blame them for not ever believing the cops again.

And then of course, once they figure out the cops lied about pot, they start to wonder what other drugs they lied about, and they go out and try them, but because there is no real drug education, they dont know what theyre doing, and with drugs like cocaine, that can be very dangerous. Trust me. I knew several people who thought like that in high school. One of them died of a cocaine overdose, because no-one had ever informed him on how to do it and do it safely.

So, pick one. Either you educate, or you try to persuade. It cant be both. Education is unbiased.

Answer 5

Those programs do not deter anyone who decides to try drugs. Peer pressure and curiosity kill anything that concerned advocates can come up with. I didn't use drugs because I chose not to. I had higher expectations for my life and I am a lot stronger than MOST of my "friends" plus I believe in living life as an example and I don't drink or smoke cigarettes either. It is hypocritical to tell your children don't drink, smoke, or use illegal drugs while you're throwing back a beer, dragging on your 14th cigarette, and snorting coke.

Answer 6

Knowing that trying seemingly innocent and popular drugs like marijuana leads to trying other, more harmful drugs. "Gateway drugs" I'm sure we've all heard that term, but it always 'put the fear' in me, if you will. Hearing from people whose lives it destroyed; how much they regret it, etc. Hearing that always touched my heart and I knew I didn't want to turn out like that. Good luck to you and may God bless your mission!

Answer 7

i don't think there is anything anyone could have said to me to not try drugs. peer pressure is probably the most motivating factor in doing drugs. if you could get someone in your target age range, who has had experience with the consequences of doing drugs, it may help, but probably not. we all tend to think it can't happen to us. i applaud your efforts, and hope you can get through to even 1 person.

Answer 8

Show them some pictures of Anna Nicole Smith and her deadly friend Stern!

Answer 9

A good frriend of mine has died of drugs.he was 24 Years old.I would tell the kids about him