17. What Can a Community Do?

• Why not form a small group of people and study these papers?

• Learn more about drugs through your local health department, police department, or through voluntary agencies such as EURAD.

• Ask your local Residents Association or school to assist you with paperwork, photocopying facilities etc.

• Become a credible source of information on drugs within your community.

• DON'T BE JUDGEMENTAL.

• Help to inform your neighbours and community by sharing your knowledge with them, through small public meetings.

• Invite speakers from police, health department, or local treatment centres.

• Help to organise courses in parenting skills and assertiveness training for young parents to enable them to deal effectively with problems in the home.

• Remember that Parent Power can be a very effective line of defence for your youngsters against drugs.

Drugs are illiegal because they are dangerous - They are not dangerous because they are illegal.