Anti-drug campaign gets smarter

[poledriver]

Anti-drug campaign gets smarter

To ensure its annual awareness campaign against drugs gets the attention of the young mass, the anti-narcotics cell (ANC) is doing away with lectures and is planning to just display posters with catchy illustrations and text. ANC has approached JJ School of Arts for help to create the artwork for the campaign. The idea is to convey the message through fewer words and relevant, eye-catching images.

Confirming the decision, ANC deputy commissioner of police Vinayak Deshmukh said, “We have spoken to the authorities at JJ School of Arts. We will hold some more meetings with them to finalise things.” ANC awareness campaigns in colleges began in 2008 after the cell, then under IPS officer Vishwas Nangre- Patil busted a major rave party at the Bombay 72 Degrees East pub in Juhu, arrested several suppliers and detained more than 100 youngsters. Many of the arrested were college students and celebrity kids.

Considering the young generation is getting increasingly drawn to narcotics, ANC started regular awareness campaigns in colleges across Mumbai, where youngsters were warned of the ill effects of drug abuse and encouraged to come forward and report any such incidents to police with the option of remaining anonymous. “Over the years, we have observed that lectures by experts we organise get poor response. We spoke to some principals and they told us students do not show much interest in lectures and that it was a tough task to get them to attend. So we decided to change our approach,” Deshmukh said.

The posters will be displayed at college entrances, canteens and other spots where there is largescale movement of students. ANC officials said as the posters will be designed by students of roughly the same age as the ANC target audience, they will have a better chance of hitting a chord.

Meanwhile, ANC officers are sifting through material used in earlier campaigns to extract short and relevant sections.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/antidrug-campaign-gets-smarter/1036369/0

 

[23536]

Harm reduction is the only way. Prevention programs are useless.

Considering the young generation is getting increasingly drawn to narcotics, ANC started regular awareness campaigns in colleges across Mumbai, where youngsters were warned of the ill effects of drug abuse and encouraged to come forward and report any such incidents to police with the option of remaining anonymous.

Youngsters love snitches.

 

[Renz Envy]

If they'll pay me I'll make a poster.

"Don't do drugs, the police will arrest you."

 

[Clocktower]

Sounds like a failed strategy from two decades ago.

 

[phenethylo J]

They always told kids to snitch on people how the fuck is this any differnt. In high school on the school news they had this crime stoppers add with 3 kids making an exchange in the hall and some kid seeing them and calling crime stoppers on his cell phone. Seems like a good way of getting some kid beat up or killed. Just because the call is anonymous doesn't mean people wont find out.

 

[Portillo]

Great initiative. Anti-drug orgs need to prove that they are hip and trendy, and have ipads.

 

[Foreigner]

Considering the young generation is getting increasingly drawn to narcotics...

Maybe that's because the war on drugs is a dismal policy failure and young people are embracing their self-directed freedom to do what the fuck they want with their own bodies?

 

[Renz Envy]

Seems like a good way of getting some kid beat up or killed. Just because the call is anonymous doesn't mean people wont find out.

People that have never taken more than a peak of the drug world will never understand why this is a reason why people disappear and "snitching" is inherently more dangerous than taking the drug itself.

Maybe that's because the war on drugs is a dismal policy failure and young people are embracing their self-directed freedom to do what the fuck they want with their own bodies?

We have freedom, but at the same time the passing of highly potent abusive illegal drugs can lead to an addiction in which the person's freedom is lost.

The idea of "Well I've never done it so it's wrong." is just as bad as, "I love it and it's right." IMO
Obviously you've probably seen a few hard drug addicts that have nothing more than the drug they're on and doing it to the point of mindlessness makes logical sense to them. Not only that, but after a while the desperate feeling of needing to keep withdrawals away becomes bad enough to the point where many people will transform into crooks to support the habit and not put an ounce of thought for anyone else.

Maybe there's a hypothetical world in which rX or OTC heroin wouldn't cause just as many or more O/Ds than it does now. Or a world where Meth is still sold in gas stations and people don't lose their mind, soul and feelings to get a better hit on day 5. It'd be difficult to govern a civilization of ignorant people with little self control.

Therefore,
" We must change ourselves before we can change the world" -Ghandi

 

[Jabberwocky]

Harm reduction is the only way. Prevention programs are useless.

thisXinfinity. Was talking about this w/ someone last night <think i made a new convert to ending prohibition ;P >

Here's the thing- if ppl wanna do drugs, almost all of them will, regardless of legality. If parents/authorities took a proactive, HR-based role, then kids'll listen a bit and be safer for having done so. Instead, they get abstinence shoved down their throats (which they ignore), and their *true* drug education comes from dealers adn their peers- at least their peers' POV's tend to be closer to reality than the prohibitionists'.
If you truly care about your kid you need to explain drugs to them properly- they'll tune out abstinence. And if they do, you've thrown away any influence you could have had, and all that's left are peers/dealers/self-experimentation. Prohibitionists never seem to understand this

 

[Black]

People that have never taken more than a peak of the drug world will never understand why this is a reason why people disappear and "snitching" is inherently more dangerous than taking the drug itself.

We have freedom, but at the same time the passing of highly potent abusive illegal drugs can lead to an addiction in which the person's freedom is lost.

The idea of "Well I've never done it so it's wrong." is just as bad as, "I love it and it's right." IMO
Obviously you've probably seen a few hard drug addicts that have nothing more than the drug they're on and doing it to the point of mindlessness makes logical sense to them. Not only that, but after a while the desperate feeling of needing to keep withdrawals away becomes bad enough to the point where many people will transform into crooks to support the habit and not put an ounce of thought for anyone else.

Maybe there's a hypothetical world in which rX or OTC heroin wouldn't cause just as many or more O/Ds than it does now. Or a world where Meth is still sold in gas stations and people don't lose their mind, soul and feelings to get a better hit on day 5. It'd be difficult to govern a civilization of ignorant people with little self control.

Therefore,
" We must change ourselves before we can change the world" -Ghandi

what you're saying is right in some parts, but i completely disagree with your conclusions.

first of all, we don't have the freedom. if they catch you with some marijuana, they throw you in jail in most countries.

it's not about if taking drugs is wrong or right. it's about choice and freedom.
i have met quite a few hard drug addicts, but i wouldn't have known that they were addicted if they hadn't told me. we have a comparatively lax substitution program over here, which makes for an awful lot of cheap instant release morphine on the streets. if an addiction (at least to opiates; i don't know about meth, we don't have any) is affordable to drug users, there will basically be no crime associated with it.

there's a real world where rx heroin actually dramatically decreased the od's (and crime btw); it's called switzerland. they startet in 1991 iirc and haven't looked back.

i don't know about meth. as i said, it's very rare around here. but ime people aren't really interested in meth as long as good quality amphetamine is available.

 

[Jabberwocky]

it's not about if taking drugs is wrong or right. it's about choice and freedom.

and economics:

even if it's wrong and should be criminalized, criminalization doesn't really do anything anyways.

i don't know about meth. as i said, it's very rare around here. but ime people aren't really interested in meth as long as good quality amphetamine is available.

for the futility of criminalizing meth, see this post:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/...-taking-E)?p=11095570&viewfull=1#post11095570

but ime people aren't really interested in meth as long as good quality amphetamine is available.

see this for a strong case that restricting mdma increases meth usage