This World Drug Day, 26^th June 2023, let’s focus our attention on delaying and denying uptake of substances for our most vulnerable and their communities, and work toward reducing stigma of those seeking to exit drug use to a healthier, safer, and more promising future. #preventdontpromote #RecoveryPosse

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Links between sexual violence incidence rates and alcohol consumption or the use of drugs, are highlighted in new research on first year college students.

• One in three (35pc) women who experienced sexual violence said incapacitation by alcohol or drugs was the tactic used by the perpetrator.
• [Substance assisted] Coercion (34pc) and force or threat of force experienced by 20pc of women.
• Men experienced sexual violence at lower rate of 18pc saying incapacitation due to alcohol/drugs was a tactic, with by 16pc citing coercion and 8pc, force or threat of force.
• Two in three (65pc) of females in the survey and 72pc of males had what was regarded as a “hazardous pattern of alcohol consumption”.
• Among females, the experience of completed non-consensual penetration was above 35pc for those who used alcohol at a hazardous level and those who had used cannabis in the past 12 months.
• It rose to 44pc among females who had used ecstasy and 48pc among those who had used cocaine or ketamine.
• For male students, the experience of non-consensual penetration was particularly associated with having used drugs in the past 12 months

(Source: Links between sexual violence and alcohol or drug use highlighted in new student study )

Also see The ‘Unleashing’ Of Domestic, Familial & Intimate Partner Violence – The Drug Factor.

Time To ‘Just Say No’ To George Soros’s Campaign To Legalize Drugs: In his 2004 book “The Bubble of American Supremacy,” Soros stated: “When I decided to extend the operations of my Open Society Foundation to the United States, I chose drug policy as one of the first fields of engagement. I felt that drug policy was the area in which the United States was in the greatest danger of violating the principles of open society.” By Rachel Ehrenfeld https://ussanews.com/2023/06/12/time-to-just-say-no-to-george-soross-campaign-to-legalize-drugs-by-rachel-ehrenfeld/

Also see 

• AOD Primary Prevention & Demand Reduction Priority Primer: TASKING THE NATIONAL HEALTH STRATEGIES FOR COMMUNITY WELL-BEING.
• ‘YOU CAN’T SAY NOT TO DRUGS!’ What The??

Moves by a small number of governments to legalize the non-medical use of cannabis have led to increased consumption without explaining the potentially serious health dangers that users face from the drug, a UN narcotics watchdog said on Thursday.

Issuing the warning at the launch of its annual report, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) cited data indicating that the trend caused “negative health effects and psychotic disorders” among some recreational cannabis users, while also contravening the UN 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

“In all jurisdictions where cannabis has been legalized, data show that cannabis-related health problems have increased,” INCB said. It pointed out that between 2000 and 2018, “global medical admissions related to cannabis dependence and withdrawal increased eight-fold. Admissions for cannabis-related psychotic disorders have quadrupled worldwide.”

United Nations News – March 2023

Also see 

• Legalising Harm: Why Cannabis Legalisation is an Egregious Error
• Recreational cannabis legalization alters associations among cannabis use, perception of risk, and cannabis use disorder treatment for adolescents and young adults
• State Empowered Cannabis Induced Psychosis – What Legalizing Weed Does to Public Mental Health
• Cannabis Leads in Race to Psychotic Disorders
• Cannabis Legalization Increases Consumption and all the Attending Harms
• Pediatric cannabis intoxication trends in the pre and post-legalization era
• How Legalizing Cannabis Effects your Health & Safety: 

“The mantra repeated by worldwide media, which has demonstrated that truth is no longer their interest, is that Portugal’s drug decriminalisation has been an unmitigated success. But their policies of ‘dissuasion’ have clearly not reduced drug use as they wanted. Rather drug use has increased 59% since 2001 when they first decriminalised. On their own terms, this is failure.” 

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Also see 

• 20 years of Portuguese Drug Policy – Development & Challenges (PDF attached) 
• How the former 'heroin capital of Europe' decriminalised drugs
• Portugal Drug Policy – A Review Of The Evidence: Highlights Many Problems that Make it Unsuitable for Australia