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April 22, 2009 - The Church of Scientology International is encouraging parents to give their tweens and teens a gift—and its free. It’s a packet of drug education booklets that kids actually like, called "The Truth About Drugs." Made in a youth friendly, pocket-sized format the booklets provide straightforward facts from national and international sources and meet head-on the problem of how to talk to kids about drugs.
A community drug education and prevention proponent for more than 20 years, the Church helps support the publication and distribution of the drug-free packets. "Drugs are at the root of many of the problems we face today," said Wendy Beccaccini, the Say No to Drugs Programs Coordinator of the Church of Scientology International. "Arming kids with relevant facts about drugs isn’t just a nice thing to do, it’s a vital part of keeping them happy and healthy."
The Truth About Drugs packet contains a series of booklets on the most commonly abused drugs: alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, ecstasy, cocaine and crack cocaine, prescription drug abuse, methamphetamine, heroin and LSD.
Nineteen year-old Nick Mauser, the Youth President of the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, the non-profit secular organization that publishes the booklets, says they debunk what kids hear on the street about drugs. "If you don’t know better, when someone tells you a drug will make you cool, help you forget your problems or make you one of the guys, it might seem worth the risk," said Mauser. "That’s why informative drug education is vital and why these booklets are straight talk—things that pushers and others who want you to do drugs don’t say," said Mauser.
"Teens like these booklets because they don’t just tell you to say 'no'," said Mauser. "They say what each drug does with real stories from people who have been there — its not preaching but the facts."
To get a free Truth About Drugs packet, contact your local Church of Scientology, or order them online at http://drugfreeworld.org.
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