Expanding World Health Day into a Weeklong Community-based Anti-Drug Initiative

Scientology Churches turn World Health Day April 7 into a week of activities to counter drug abuse, working with civic, community and religious leaders to create a groundswell of community support for drug prevention and education.
 
CAMBRIDGE, Ontario - April 14, 2015 - PRLog -- With the World Health Organization reporting 3.3 million alcohol-related deaths each year, 15.3 million people addicted to drugs, and 120 countries suffering from HIV caused by injected drug use, Scientologists in Canada and around the world marked World Health Day with an entire week of activities April 7-14 to rally their communities to counter drug abuse.

“Our goal is a drug-free world,” said Fabio Amicarelli, coordinator of the social reform activities of the Church of Scientology International. “Drug abuse is so pervasive in our world, it is only by community groups working together at a grassroots level that we can handle the epidemic. But more than 25 years of experience has proven to us that we save lives every time we reach out to youth with factual information about drugs.”

While Scientologists are active in drug education throughout the year, on World Health Day in April and the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in June, they pull out all stops, organizing open houses, drug education seminars, conferences, and workshops featuring educators, law enforcement officers and community leaders—the leading proponents of drug prevention in their zones.

This week’s programs include training in the Truth About Drugs initiative, with materials based on nearly three decades of hands-on work helping youth understand the consequences of using  the most commonly abused substances. Study of these materials helps young people make their own firm, self-determined decisions to live drug-free.

An overview of the week’s activities include conferences, lectures and Open Houses in Churches of Scientology across the world – including in places as diverse as Johannesburg, where Bishop Ogbu of Impact Africa Network spoke of the role of churches in fighting drugs, Buffalo, New York, where a racecar driver explained why he promotes the Truth About Drugs program through his racing, Mexico City where the Church presented a “Colloquium on the Problem and Solution to Drugs in Mexico” attended by local and national law enforcement agencies who have adopted the program and in Canada in Quebec City and Cambridge, Ontario where drug education lectures were delivered to attendees.

Inspired by the words of L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of the Scientology religion, that “a being is only as valuable as he can serve others,” Scientologists wholeheartedly support programs such as the Truth About Drugs initiative, which has been lauded as the world’s largest non-governmental drug education initiative.

Participation and collaboration in these initiatives is invited and welcomed from all who seek to improve conditions for themselves and others.

For more information, visit the Scientology website at

www.Scientology.org/how-we-help/voice-for-humanity.

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