{"id":2851,"date":"2021-05-10T16:57:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/prevention-demand-reduction-an-all-of-community-approach\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:57:29","slug":"prevention-demand-reduction-an-all-of-community-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/prevention-demand-reduction-an-all-of-community-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevention & Demand Reduction \u2013 An all of Community Approach \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dalgarno Institute has long advocated for an anthropological approach to the cultural \u2018symptom\u2019 of substance use. Drug use invariably causes (at the very least) some level of harm to both the drug user (their health and well-being) or that of their family and community. On an ever-growing number of occasions, drug use creates a veritable maelstrom of disturbing outcomes and harms \u2013 most of which cannot be \u2018reduced\u2019, despite the claims of pro-drug advocates. Prevention (denying and\/or delaying substance uptake) is the only<\/em><\/strong> best-practice for the developing brain demographic.<\/p>\n

This is one of the core reasons why our long standing (but relatively small grass-roots movement) has always sought to look \u2018behind\u2019 the noise of drug use and its outcomes to origins, motivators and initiates.<\/a> Anthropologically sound proactive and protective elements have always been part of our community education mechanisms<\/a>, very much including the understanding of a consistent culture shaping Journey of resiliency building principles, values and relationships with young people and their immediate socialisation contexts.<\/p>\n

Engaging All of community \u2013 All of the family \u2013 with one focus, one message and one voice of deny and\/or delaying uptake<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Our perception of reality is constructed socially, and that is done through recency, frequency, proximity and intensity. What the young person is immersed in familial and culturally will shape the development of the emerging citizen.<\/a> So, it is imperative that what focus, message and voice our young people are exposed to on drug use does not create cognitive dissonance or deliver contradictory messaging and modelling in the public square.  Any confusion in this space only diminishes the protective factors of the message. We do not have such cognitive dissonance around tobacco use on our culture, and subsequently demand for cigarettes has plummeted.  All messaging must enable, equip and empower the emerging generation to have greater capacity to develop their humanity, agency and dignity without the drug use, that only undermines these imperatives.<\/p>\n

Iceland too understood much of this, and not only the value of the preventative \u2018all of community\u2019 approach, but the need for a disciplined, sustained and uncompromised implementation of strategies be bought to bear. (Again much like our successful \u2018war on tobacco\u2019) The outcomes, as we already understand from other historical models of \u2018all of community\u2019 shaping mechanisms; works.<\/p>\n

The following is a link to the overview of this model, which is based in sound anthropological, not merely sociological principles \u2013 including Sustainable worldview, meaning, purpose, values and relationships \u2013 All things that keep Humpty Dumpty from and unnecessary fragility and self-sabotaging risks.<\/a><\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>https:\/\/planetyouth.org\/the-core-elements\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dalgarno Institute has long advocated for an anthropological approach to the cultural \u2018symptom\u2019 of substance use. Drug use invariably causes (at the very least) some level of harm to both the drug user (their health and well-being) or that of their family and community. On an ever-growing number of occasions, drug use creates a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-zone-curriculum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}