Member Activity

The Foundation for a Drug-Free Europe (FDFE) created in 2004 is a branch of the Foundation for a Drug-Free World and is working with more than hundred Say No To Drugs (SNTD) organizations through 22 European countries.

The common objective of the SNTD associations is a preventive information of youngsters and adults on the drugs dangers. The purpose is to empower them with the facts to make an informed choice to never start drugs in the first place. After Czech Republic and France, FDFE is here after presenting the drug prevention activities in two other European countries:

In Belgium, the headquarter of the Say No to Drugs (SNTD) association is located in Brussels, well known as the core of Europe. The SNTD team is covering the whole country doing weekly distributions of The Truth About Drugs in streets and/or to any kind of shops and getting the owners to give them to their clients.

They are also using the Summer Festivals with booths to enlighten the attendees as well as going to beaches to inform the population and the youth on the drugs dangers and how they affect the user.

In addition, many requests are coming from teachers or instructors, to receive the Education Package. It contains a full semester drug education curriculum for use in schools and the community to deliver lessons based on drug information and prevention.

This way, the past year they distributed more than 72 000 booklets The Truth About Drugs informing on the short and long term effects of the 11 drugs the most abused, plus 12 000 fliers referring to the website www.ditesnonaladrogue.be, where the people can download booklets, DVDs and find testimonies. Altogether 63 events were held including the Festivals and different Conferences.

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In Portugal , the Say No To Drugs (SNTD) association is located in Lisbon and operates from there through the country.

Beside the streets distribution of the basic booklet The Truth About Drugs to citizens and shopkeepers, the SNTD team is active at school levels doing lectures to children, using the multimedia educational materials provided by the Foundation for a drug-Free World.

Last year they did 13 lectures in different schools of the city including a special lecture to police officers, thus reaching 715 people.

Meanwhile, 5300 booklets were handed to public empowering young people and adults to make their own decisions to live drug-free. The cornerstone of the action is a series of 13 fact-filled booklets that, without scare tactics, inform about drugs effects.

In addition, in the city of Madeira, the Regional Secretariat for Education and Human Resources aware of the importance of drug prevention to dispel myths on drugs harmlessness inserted in their website the SNTD Portugal anti-drug campaign.

According to Consolidated Nations Role on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) emblematical in Pakistan Cesar Guedes and Sharing Escritoire Narcotics Hold Partitioning Mian Zulqarnain Ameer released a examination titled "Have Use in Pakistan 2014". According to the info, people in Pakistan aged between 15 to 64 geezerhood use drugs in antithetic forms. The statistics of this informing ask that 6% or 6.7 Million adults in Pakistan had old drugs in 2014. 25 to 39 age age has the maximal frequence. About 4.5 Million fill are totally subordinate on drugs. The treatment opportunities to these fill surrender tract due to the absence of specialists. Only 30,000 ingest users every year can be treated with prevailing specialists. 80% men and 20% women union together to state 6.7 Million drug addicts in Pakistan. Women were little promising to jazz been activated struck state where a person of the accumulation lives on inferior than 1.25 dollars per day and financial obstruction makes it nigh undoable for every medicate freak to get discourse.

Hemp is the most misused take in Pakistan having 3.6% users or 4 Million grouping. Opium and Opiate ranks back and it is used by near 1% of medicate addicts. Opiate and Opium are mainly utilised in the areas that have borders joint with Afghanistan as the dwell is pedagogue poppy cultivating country.

Most people living in poverty-stricken areas of the country got addicted to drugs because some of their elders had been addicts throughout their lives. “Most people get the habit by watching their elders while growing up.

Nowadays even A-class (without any impurity) drugs were easily available in low-income areas. Market had no role in determining the use of drug in the country. “There is an extensive supply of drugs such as opium and hashish in the country.

Bashiran Munshi Foundation Drug Abuse information would soon be set up as part of a campaign against drug use. We are sending you some picture from our city people use drugs.

Author:

Tahir Aslam
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Juma Wala Village , the part of South Punjab Pakistan — In this villages not far from the Multan District , the wheat harvest is only days away. Water buffaloes are resting in the shade. Farmers are preparing their fields. And drug addicts Alcohol like are crouched in the shadows, injecting themselves with cocktails of synthetic drugs.

Last Thursday, just after 11 a.m., Mr. Shabir followed another man into a dark corner of a decrepit building favored by the roughly 50 addicts in this village. Cracked prescription bottles littered the ground. The other man jabbed a syringe into his arm and injected a blend of prescription drugs that delivers a six-hour high.

“Save some for me,” said Mr. Shabir, who is drug addicts and stricken with tuberculosis. He told a photographer: “Shoot my picture. Make me famous.”

In south Punjab, whether in villages or cities, drugs have become a scourge. Opium is prevalent, refined as heroin or other illegal substances. Schoolboys sometimes eat small black balls of opium paste, with tea, before classes. Synthetic drugs are popular among those too poor to afford heroin.

The scale of the problem, if impossible to quantify precisely, is undeniably immense and worrisome. Pakistan has one of the world’s youngest populations, a factor that is expected to power future economic growth, yet Punjab is already a reminder of the demographic risks of a glut of young people. An overwhelming majority of addicts are between the ages of 15 and 35, according to one study, with many of them unemployed and frustrated by unmet expectations.

For the Punjab government, the problem is hardly unknown. Private drug treatment centers, some run by quacks, have proliferated across the state, and treatment wards in government hospitals have seen a surge in patients.

Bashiran Munshi Foundation, surveyed 500 drug addicts in rural and urban areas of Punjab and found that they were usually young, poor and unemployed. Most villages did not have health clinics but did have three or four drugstores, which often made sizable profits selling pills and other synthetic drugs to addicts who cannot afford heroin.

Mr. Javiad who are member of BMF said he had completed his study six years ago, at the request of Punjab’s governor, yet had never been contacted by any state official about the findings. “The state is not conceiving it as a social problem,” he said. “They are conceiving it as a personal problem.”

Opium has a long history in Punjab, and was commonly and legally consumed here before Pakistan gained independence in 1947. Today, Punjab is a primary gateway for opiates smuggled into Pakistan from Afghanistan.

The problem is prevalent in middle-class enclaves, where some users are hooked on heroin. One impoverished neighborhood of KPK, called Maqboolpura, is known as the Village of Widows — because so many young men have died of drug abuse and some of died use expired alcohol.

“Drugs are available everywhere,” said Ashraf Ali, who has spent 13 years running a school for poor children affected by drug abuse. Of the school’s 656 students, roughly 70 percent have lost a parent to drugs. One girl, a fifth grader, lost five uncles and her father to drug-related deaths.

In Punjab Villages and Urban Area, about a two-hour drive from Multan, a local nongovernmental organization tries to prevent the spread of drug addicts person. The group’s workers say there are 48 hard-core addicts in the village (out of more than 2,000 people) but that many other people use drugs. Government officials have sponsored “camps” here, with health officials providing antidrug information or trying to persuade addicts to undergo treatment — neither of which, villagers say, has been successful.

“Everybody knows about it,” said Mr Shah, a local shopkeeper. “But nobody does anything to stop it.”

Mr. Shabir, who is drug addicts, lives at his parents’ home with his younger brother and his sister. He started using drugs at age 15, and then quit school. He worked for several years pulling a rickshaw, got married and had a daughter. Later, his wife gave premature birth to twin sons, who died. Unable to abide her husband’s drug use, his wife left him and their daughter

“He steals things from the house,” said , his sister. “Sometimes, he steals money.”

Mr. Shabir, now 29, said he had tried many times to quit using drugs, but the urge was too strong. Because of his tuberculosis, he said, he is careful not to get to close to his daughter. “I play with her from a distance,” he said. “I try not to hug her, so that she doesn’t get infected.”

He added: “My future is finished. I am basically dead now.”

Report from

Tahir Aslam/ General Sectary

Bashiran Munshi Foundation

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