C.E.P.T.A.
The CAMPAIGN for EFFECTIVE PREVENTION and TREATMENT of ADDICTION.
5. ‘EFFECTIVE
PREVENTION’
Means They Don’t Start Drugs, Don’t Intend To and Never Will.
Contrary to the alarm generated by the
so-called Harm Reduction lobby, there are considerably more individuals who do not
use drugs than there are who do.
This applies equally to our youth in spite of the “Drugs Education”
delivered in our schools on so-called ‘Harm Reduction’ principles, which
educate our youngsters in how to choose and use drugs, instead of in how to
avoid using them!
Provenly ‘Effective Prevention
Training’ has been available for decades and, because it is effective, it works to reduce the number of individuals who
become drug users and eventually drug addicts.
Quite clearly this is not good for illicit drug sales. But it is also not good for licensed and prescription drug sales. Pubs are closed down if they are not
selling enough alcohol. Pharmaceutical
production lines are turned over to another product if the so-called ‘ADHD’
drug they have been producing drops in turnover, price or profit because of
lack of demand.
As a result, Effective Prevention
based on Effective Prevention Training is strongly ‘frowned upon’ by all types of drug producers and
distributors illegal and otherwise. But
because they dare not openly oppose prevention, not only do they pretend that
so-called ‘Harm Reduction’ ‘Drugs Education’ IS prevention, but they also condemn Effective Prevention Training
– not openly – but by doing everything in their power to keep it off the
agenda, most often by falsely claiming that prevention probably can’t
work!
Not the subject of prevention itself,
but the promoters of Effective Prevention Training – such as the National Drug
Prevention Alliance and Positive Prevention Plus – are as far as possible
excluded from the debate. Kick the
opposing player not the ball is the main strategy used against them, so
attacking favourable mention of them in public and attacking their funding is
the professional foul most in evidence.
Those commercial interests who do not want prospective new users of illicit
drugs to be “prevented” from experiencing drug usage or do not want youngsters
to be diverted from experimenting with drugs, work through lobbyists and
‘front’ organisations (such as DrugScope,
the National Harm Reduction Alliance, the DfES’s “Blueprint” programme,
DrugLink, the Drug Education Forum, the Association for the Prevention of
Addiction, etc., etc.).
They use every trick in the PR and
lobbying handbook to marginalise, play down and prevent Real Prevention
Training and the very real and valuable results it achieves.
Clearly it takes money – of
government spending proportions - to deliver any form of training to large
numbers of the population, and when it comes to effective prevention training,
one has to finance the training of four main groups:
1) Obviously
there are the children themselves and, because of the machinations of the
pushers at the school gates, the so-called harm reduction educators and the
psychiatrists in school, college and university infirmaries, we have to think
in terms of four main youth groupings – schoolchildren from 6 to 11 years,
those from 12 to 17 years, undergraduates and college students from 18 to 24
years, and those youngsters no longer in education from 15 or 16 years onwards.
2) Then
there are the teachers, coaches, counsellors, house masters and mistresses,
head teachers and faculty heads, doctors and nurses, etc., all of whom have
contact with and influence upon the youth groups indicated in 1) above for
anything from 6 to 10 hours each weekday – some 64 hours a week.
3) Then,
we have the parents who, as history has demonstrated in many countries, are by
far the most important group because they have the longest duration, and most
intimate, contact with their children.
From birth to five years they are with them usually full time. From 6 to 18 they are usually with them for
16 hours each week day, plus the whole weekend and some 6 to 8 weeks of
holidays per year. So whilst a lot of
drug temptation and damage is done at school and on the street when the
youngster is away from his or her home, the greatest opportunity for
protection, rescue and prevention training exists in the home.
4) Finally,
the fourth group is comprised of those individuals who are trained in the
‘effective prevention training’ which it is essential should be delivered to
the three above groups. And the
interesting thing is that these trained trainers are usually drawn from the
three groups they are training.
Yes, they are most often parents,
teachers and older pupils who, having themselves been trained by devoted
volunteers from various charitable, religious, fraternal and other concerned
volunteer groups, then go on to train others.
Whilst there are groups like the
NDPA, DARE, Narconon, Narcotics Anonymous,
the Police and others who deliver the basics to parents, teachers and
older students, without doubt it is the parents themselves which do the most
and achieve the most – once they are themselves trained in the
basics of prevention and have stripped away the false ideas inculcated
by so-called ‘Harm Reduction’ ‘Drugs Education’ and psycho-pharmaceutical P.R.
and media manipulation.
It is mainly the parents who make a
Parent / Teachers Association succeed or fail.
It is parents who organise and run
the Raffles, the Bring & Buy Sales and the Cake Stalls, etc,. which raise
the funds to run ‘Effective Prevention Training Groups’ and for ‘Happier
Families Clubs’ and other community groups to deliver ‘Parental Guidance
Evenings’ on Effective Prevention.
It is concerned parents who rid
their local schools of psychiatrists prescribing addictive drugs to so-called
ADHD falsely labelled children - who are usually found on proper examination to
be suffering some form of allergy or dietary deficiency.
It is parents who do most to
galvanise teachers, Councillors, MPs, MEPs, Police and civil servants, etc.,
into doing whatever is needed and wanted in their local area.
And it is parents who are most often
in a better position to speak to their offsprings on drug matters – BUT ONLY IF
THE PARENTS ARE
THEMSELVES FIRST TRAINED IN
VIABLE PREVENTION METHODS.
So, when concerned about rising drug
problems in your area, first find out if parents are being involved. Then make sure they are being trained, and
also ,make sure that their training is IN EFFECTIVE PREVENTION and not in
so-called ‘Harm Reduction’ or ‘Drugs Education’.
And if you want to be put in contact
with Effective Prevention Training Organisations, ring (01342) 811099 and ask
for C.E.P.T.A.. - The Campaign for Effective Prevention & Treatment
of Addiction.
And whilst we are on the subject of
Effective Prevention Training, keep your eyes and ears open and ask yourself
why it is that the very best and most effective training in how to tackle drugs
– on both a prevention and cure basis - is being delivered by volunteer,
charitable, religious and self-help groups, whilst the dangerous so-called Harm
Reduction Drug promoting Education is paid for out of taxpayer funds.
The reason is simple.
Government and civil service
decision-makers alike have been bamboozled for decades by the propaganda of the
psycho-pharmaceutical industries.
Earlier confronted with a serious
addiction problem they had turned to those whom they believed were the
game-keepers of the world of drugs, but have not yet realised that like some
game-keepers, the drug companies are working more for themselves than for the
local squire, and are often a bigger menace to the preservation of the game and
livestock on their master’s estate than the recognisable poachers !
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C.E..P.T.A. and E. Kenneth Eckersley, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 &
2005. All World Rights Reserved