World Anti-DrugTransnational Internet contest - "Maya"

Questions

• Doctors tend not to talk about "recovered drug addicts," and prefer the term "inactive addicts" those who dont use drugs right at given moment. In your opinion, is it not possible to get rid of this label? Even in the opinion of drug treatment experts, patients remain forever addicted. How can the modern society be taught to have an adequate attitude toward former drug addicts and consider them as a part of the society?

  Only though the examples of returning from a drug addicted life to normal life, through the stories about returning back to the creation of their own destiny and life. Only the "direct speech" can convince any that this is not a chimera, but a real truthful case. But the major thing is to remember and not allow others to forget that: it is easy to become addicted, but to get at least on the surface – is a hard and long process, not to mention the further lift ... It is also hard and takes a long time to change the attitudes towards those who came back from the drug addicted life.

• In you opinion how important is parental education and relationships within the family in preventing drug addiction?

  Family – has a primary role. It starts with personal examples of olders and continues with clear assessments of the issues of current interest.

• 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?

  In my sincere conviction that only by statistical calculations and medical descriptions of the consequences of drug use, it is impossible to stop the person from the temptation of trying this evil. The consequences of even the short-term drug usage must be traced and explained, and the "romanticization" or "glorification" of drugs must be excluded from the game-television series.

  Of course, you must offer a reasonable choice: of leisure pastime and "synthetic happiness." Drugs or interesting, leisure-time activities, such as – sport, culture, rational interests. The state creates various organized leisure-time activities, at the same time, it should be offering a healthy and proper lifestyle and life values through the sources of mass media.