Millennium
without drugs
Seminar
Millennium without drugs took place at September 12-13 in Kajaani, Kainuu
region. It was held as a part of Antinarkota project implementation and
was devoted to drug abuse problems, prophylactics and preventing of drug abusing
and propaganda of healthy way of living.
Besides
project teams of Kajaani and Kostomuksha mayor Mr Yurinov, vice mayor Ms Fantina,
head of Kajaani Counsil Mr Erkki Moilanen, Olli Saarela, head of culture, sport
and youth policy, representative of police, teachers, medical workers, students
of Oulu University branch were present.
At
the seminar different approaches for solving complex problems of drug abusing
and making society more healthy were discussed. Specialists of cross border
regions were exchanging by their
experience in working with youth, were introducing new social and informational
technologies aiming development of culture and sport.
Summing
up results of the seminar, participants appreciated highly results of
implementation of Antinarkota project, which program is already
implemented at a half according to action plan. Also decision of enlarging
partner cooperation between Kajaani and Kostomuksha in sphere of drug abuse
prophylactics and promoting healthy way of living, culture, sport and education
was taken.
What
else do leaders of the project do? During several month members of
Antinarkota in cooperation with specialists of SDIA (State Department of
Inner Affairs), psychologist and narcologist are having meetings in working
collectives of our town. At the meeting it is said about drug abuse problems and
how children can avoid it.
As
meetings showed parents often take off their responsibility for breeding their
children, that really worries specialists. Parents do not pay enough attention
to the fact how their children spend free time, what kind of interests they have.
Mostly people said at the meetings that school, militia, entertainment
organizations are guilty in children problems.
Also
interesting data are got by questioning of adults and youth by Antinarkota
project (Pls
see articles Alternative is
necessary to drugs, 27.06.02 KN, and
Adults do care, KN, 19.09.02, by Andrei Gubarev).
As
Ludmila Andreeva, head physician and senior advisor of the project said: solving
drug abuse problem should be begun from educating young parents, from propaganda
of healthy way of living.
Considering that problem of drug abusing is very acute in our town, it was decided to devote one session of town Council to it.
Skornjakova
Y.Gornjak, 27.09.02