World Anti-DrugTransnational Internet contest - "Maya"

Questions

• What should be in the Internet age and growth of online communities informational methods to combat drug addiction? What do you think, what means will be most effective today, and how the state should behave in order to successfully affect the suffering of drug addiction and to conduct prevention among healthy population?

  I believe that the problem with drug addicts does not spring from drugs as such, but from the contemporary society, which is unable to provide real future perspectives to those who stand before adulthood. If drugs and their substitutes are legalized and officially regulated, if criminal code is applied to drug use and the youth is offered a better future, then the drug-related problems will disappear on their own because the whole idea of drug use is simply an attempt of escaping from the reality. Let us, therefore, direct all our energy to stop violence and build a better world… this is, however, easier to say than to actually do!