There are numerous ways to popularize the idea of a drug-free community and make
your voice heard.
One group, based in Adelaide, Australia, briefed local civic officials on the program and gained permission to paint their Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life message as a mural on the walls of a railway station.
In another city, a group sponsored their own Olympic-type games where 300 children participated in relay races, a balloon race and the painting of a giant anti-drug banner.
Other groups join in civic parades, carrying large Drug-Free Marshals banners. One Say No to Drugs team in the United Kingdom sponsored a series of drug-free rock concerts and created a Say No to Drugs coloring book that they distributed to schoolchildren.
We have collected the most popular activities on this site to help you get started:
- Starting your own Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life activity begins with
deciding that you want your friends, family members, students or members
of your community to be drug free. By visiting this website, you have
already taken this step.
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Read The Truth About Drugs booklet and the individual drug prevention
booklets in this series. We have created a study guide to help you get through them.
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Share the booklets with your friends and get them to agree to work with
you.
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Use the activities described on this site to promote drug-free living. Start
with a drug-free information booth, or a drug-free pledge signing event. If
you are a teacher, you will easily see how the activities in the remainder of
this section lend themselves to a classroom setting.
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Be creative. Whatever you decide to do, you will find wide agreement with
your drug prevention actions and most everyone — mayors, police officers,
teachers and shop owners — will be more than happy to help you with your
events and group activities. And you will soon become aware of the best
possible reward — more and more young people deciding to say no to drugs
and yes to life as a result of your actions.
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Be sure to document your events with quality photographs or videos. These
will enable you to make professional presentations and gain support for
your activities. For instructional materials in how to shoot photographs and
videos, write to the Foundation.
To obtain copies of the booklets, order from our online store.
For pledges and other promotional materials mentioned on this website or to obtain a free copy of The Truth About Drugs Activities Manual, contact
the Foundation for a Drug-Free World here.
