World Anti-DrugTransnational Internet contest - "Maya"

Australia is a unique country in historical terms, from the colony for the convicts it turned into a prosperous country, largely due to these convicts. And yet these people are with deseases, convicts, and obviously not saints. Perhaps this example, is an example of rehabilitation and renovation of personality, and perhaps we can use this experience now, make a world center - such as a settlement or something like that? And this was my question. I think this is a very useful experience in the history of your country and it should be used.

Do you have high-ranking officials who are drug addicts in your country, who don´t follow any rules and laws and are not afraid of the punishment?

What is the situation with drug addicts in Australia? I've heard that are only a few of them there? Is this true? How exactly did you accomplish this?

What is the point of fighting against drugs if some people choose this path???

First of all! Never say never! If not you then your close ones might be among them!

Second of all! Do not abstain anything ever!

There are some people who did the mistake and now they want to fix it.

You have just identified freaks as ill people and now dandling them...

The solution to the problem - lies only in the personal awareness of a patient.

There is no point in fighting when the drug grows out of the ground naturally.

You must provide some useful opportunities for children. It is a failure of the Russian government that young people are not in demand in their own country. Why would the government needs youth if it has the power?!

The state has to build good schools, interest groups, sports.. All these things must be cheap and accessible to young people. And the problem of drug addiction and alcoholism will immediately disappear.

We are trying to achieve a lot with garbage in our minds.

Doesn't make any sense.

We need to fight with drug traficking and not with dying addicts.

What is the reason for the low rate of heroin consumption in Australia?

How do you deal with those who use hard drugs? Do you use some special methods in your country, or well known methods from the world practice?

Healing is possible, but if the patient himself wants to change his life. The most important task is to transfer the Spirit of Grace that can substitute drugs with many other pleasures.

If you legalize marijuana, there will be more heroin users. One day cannabis will just stop giving enough euphoria...and people will start looking for something stronger.

Only will and strong mind set can change a person. Sometimes religion helps as well. I personally know former addict, who got off heroin after converting to Islam. He was in pain, but he didn't give up - the main thing is to WANT to stop using drugs...to go through withdrawal pains voluntarily.

My aunt is a doctor and she once told me that doctors in clinics give addicts pills and they don't feel any withdrawal pains. She was indignant at this, because she believes that withdrawal pain memories will keep an addict away from the next dose in future.

In essence, this "kind of hidden" but quite opened advertisings of :alcoholism, drug addiction are very annoying. Yellow and red announcements. They cover everything:entrances, garbage cans, trees. Now the forum is being spammed.Explanation of this invasion of "healers" is simple. Amount of addicts is decreasing while the competition among "healers" is increasing.

How many campaigns of such kind were held - have they helped someone? I highly doubt it.

All the drug addicts must be set in the reservations, from where they can get out only with feet-first. And then make them work, otherwise not give them a dose. Those who want to heal - must be healed and set free, the rest of them must choose: either to work for the dose, or to get a bullet in their forehead.

Heroin - is not an easy thing, there are psychological and physical dependence, and physical dependence is hard to overcome, when the drug becomes part of the circulation of the organism, in this case, treatment is needed. But there is a really important fact here, a DESIRE to escape, an understanding that you need to be treated. If there are no such things then all of the effords are useless.

It is necessary to tighten the laws and remove the minimum standards applying only administrative punishment for drug use and traficking.

It is necessary to officially legalize the sale of so-called hard drugs. All the drug traffickers from Afghanistan as well as sellers should be officially legalized. So that all citizens of all countries will have an equal choices! How do you like it? Buy and use it!

When parents save them - it is a different thing. Or if the person wants it himself. I saw those who did not want. Who, spent their money for treatment, and right after 5 days were stoned again ...

Leaving his family without anything at all and returning back to drugs, because it is hard to give up ... Why, then, to try such things at all?

I don´t understand the desire to save drug addicts. I still remember the girl in withdrawal pains, when her mother was carrying her to the medical center in the train.

Let's show pictures of accidents, fires, etc., everybody knows what this leads to. I'm sure that people don't get addicted accidentally, and, therefore only education can influence the situation, rather than propaganda. And, of course, police have to work against drug dealers and not cover this profitable business.

Give kids something to do, to work on, and they will not even have time to think of drugs.

I think if the information will appear as negative, it will not be accepted, or maybe even vice versa, it will be something that many would like to try, to check out - whether it actually is as it was stated.

Preventive measures are needed. They are absolutely necessary. And, most importantly, lots of pictures and videos with real images and stories should be shown. Those where hands and feet are rotting,where people turn into nothing. People should't even want to try drugs! That's what we need to fight for and not merely with smoking. And if this is a real initiative and not paid PR- then I would say that you are doing a great job.