Drug Abuse Today by ANDREA MIĆANOVIĆ
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PREMIER ISSUE/JUNE Youth Initiative 2017 Magazine YOUTH FORUM IN WORLD'S DRUG DAY VIENNA SDG AND DRUG ABUSE 2017 Where does Youth Initiative Magazine What 26 June 2017 is a very special day not only come from? How did it really begin? Find are Sustainable Development Goals because the first issue of Youth Initiative out all about our team and how three and how to achieve them? Read Magazine came out, but also because it is days changed out lives forever. more on page 5. International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. TOGETHER WE BUILD A BETTER FUTURE. 10 UNODC Youth Initiative 14 Sustainable Development Forum 2017 participants Goals and drug prevention Why was participation important How are they related? What is for them? For some it turned their being done today? Find out more lives around! from Nijat Eldarov! 21 Get the facts and break 28 It goes both ways the myths Importance of the ongoing Prevention activities at Vienna campaign and how to take action. International School. 32 Understanding drug 36 Marcelo Martinez, use as a health problem exclusive interview 1 E Is really addiction our choice or Impressive life, achievements and U S S what is the science behind drug dreams of a young man. I R use. E I M E R P | 7 1 0 2 E N U J OUR TEAM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Radmila Doder VICE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Milly Meyer BOARD SECRETARY: Nikoleta Míchalová JOURNALISTS: Nikoleta Míchalová Elena Trifonova Chahrazad Sadi Andrea Mićanović Nijat Eldarov Malak Khan PROOFREADER: Paula Linares EDITORS: Haykuhi Movsisyan Zhang Haoyue Nijat Eldarov Hanan Yazdi Andrea Mićanović GRAPHIC DESIGNERS: Radmila Doder Nikoleta Míchalová Jelena Vorkapić Mahnoor Jalal PR MANAGERS: Sahar Osama Panuwat Chalermmoo Big thanks to the kind support of the UNODC office in @YIMagazine Vienna Hanna Heikkila Stefanie Schmatz Heeyoung Park @YIMagazine Disclaimer: all photographs used either belong to the participants of Youth Initiative Forum 2017, Youth @yimagazine_yi Initiative or are provided by canva.com for free use in their designs [email protected] Graphs in research article(s): 1 Alejandro Badel, Brian Greaney (2013) Exploring the Link between Want to reach us on social media? Tag us on Drug Use and Job Status in the your posts or U.S. Available at: https://www.stlouisfed.org/Publicati use #unodcyouthinitiative #yimagazine ons/Regional-Economist/July- #youthinitiativemagazine 2013/Exploring-the-Link-between- #togetherwecanbuildabetterfuture Drug-Use-and-Job-Status-in-the-US 2 Women’s health USA 2012, Illicit Drug Use. Available at:https://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa12/h s/hs.html Editor's letter Today’s youth has been often described in media unfortunately rather in negative context as lazy, not interested enough regarding the things that matter, etc. One of the missions of the Youth Initiative Magazine team is to show how much youth can contribute and that there is a lot of young people all around the world who are fighting for better tomorrow for all of us. What is more important than health seriously? In my opinion, that is the most important thing in life. When your health is at risk nothing else matters. Therefore, Youth Initiative Magazine was made as a promotion of and fight for health tackling one of the most serious danger for our health which is definitely drug abuse. We want to educate young people but also other relevant groups as for example parents about this issue and how to approach it. Moreover, we would like to motivate youth to engage in drug prevention and that is why one part of the magazine is and will be devoted to youth who are working as drug prevention activists all across the globe. I got the idea for the magazine back at the end of 2016 while discussing Youth Initiative projects for the future with my friend and colleague Marcelo. We were more than happy when this idea was well received by the UNODC Youth Initiative. The next step was to wait until Youth Forum 2017 and hopefully get more people involved which as you can see thankfully happened! We have been working hard on this project since March and we are going to continue to work even harder because we are all really passionate about this and we hope this magazine will become bigger with each issue. I want to thank my team for every moment of their free time invested in this. I hope you are going to enjoy and that you are going to learn a lot from the premier issue of the Youth Initiative Magazine! We are looking forward to your comments and contributions! Radmila Doder EDITOR-IN-CHIEF YOUTH INITIATIVE MAGAZINE EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES ON THE OCCASION Paint yourself a better future Are you good at painting? Or photography? Or theater, singing, writing? Share with us your idea of a better future on the occasion of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking by sending it to [email protected], sharing it on our FB page @YIMagazine or sharing it on your social media with hastags #fightagainstdrugsthroughart #togetherwebuildabetterfuture #unodcyouthinitiative #yimagazine #youthinitiativemagazine. Looking forward to seeing your future! #myPASstory INTERNATIONAL DAY How are YOU contributing towards a better AGAINST DRUG ABUSE AND world? What actions are you taking to combat this issue? Let us know through #myPASstory. For more information please ILLICIT TRAFFICKING contact us through Facebook or write us a mail through [email protected] By Chahrazad Sadi June 26 is the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the day when individuals, companies, societies and ASK US communities get together to fight against this dangerous phenomenon, raising awareness about the dangers of illicit Part of drug prevention drugs and how to stop this phenomenon from further is to be informed about increasing. the dangers of drug abuse, to understand what consequences the According to the final UN office report, over 200 million people actions we take have are using illicit drugs such as cocaine, cannabis, etc. This year it and to seek help when is estimated that 1 of 20 adults used at least one kind of drug. needed. Are you unsure of something? You Which is roughly the equivalent of the combined populations want to take action but don't know how to start? Don't hesitate and contact us! You of France, Germany, Italy and the UK. The impact of drug can either contact us openly on our social abuse in terms of its consequences on health continues to be media or anonymously by sending us a devastating. About 29 million people suffer from drug-use mail. You will get the answer as soon as we disorders but only 1 in 6 people with drug use disorder are in get the chance to respond and the questions who might concern more of our treatment. The most widely cultivated drugs continue to be readers will be published in our next issue. cannabis which was reported by 129 countries. On this international day against drug abuse, the UNODC calls on all countries and communities to rescue the lives of everyone blighted by drug abuse by integrating security and WHAT WILL YOU public safety policies with a focus on human well-being and DO? sustainable development. Y O U T H F O R U M 2 0 1 7 A T T H E H E A D Q U A R T E R S O F U N I T E D N A T I O N S I N V I E N N A O N T H E O C C A S I O N O F C O M M I S S I O N O N N A R C O T I C D R U G S For the sixth time in a row, from the 13th to the 15th of March, UNODC Youth Initiative gathered young leaders from all across the globe at United Nations Headquarters in Vienna. Thus providing them with an opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences in the field of drug prevention and debate further steps for further collaborations. The Youth Forum was as usual organized by and in addition to the Commision on Narcotic Drugs (CND) the policy making body of the UNODC. This year’s Forum had more than 40 youth participating from over 30 countries. These remarkable young people were nominated by the Member States thanks to being the most active youth. Furthermore, this year was different in comparison to previous years in terms of the opening ceremony. The 60th CND had Youth Initiative members Radmila and Marcelo, participants of previous Youth Forums in 2012 and 2013, as opening speakers! This was the first time in the history of the CND, that youth spoke at the opening ceremony. In addition, they were the first speakers, which shows how important the role of the youth is today! On the following day, H.E. Yuri Fedotov, UNODC’s Executive Director, gave a speech at the Youth Forum, afterwards participants had an opportunity to meet him in person and ask him questions! Also, previous day participants had an opportunity to meet Mr Gilberto Gerra, Chief of Drug Prevention and Health Branch at UNODC. On the third day of the Youth Forum this year’s Youth Forum participants, Andrea from Montengro and Ghanim from Qatar delivered the statement to the plenary of the Commision. 5 E U S S I R E I M E R P | 7 1 0 2 E N U J YOUTH INITIATIVE MAGAZINE FIRST EVER I N T H E H I S T O R Y O F T H E C N D : Y O U T H H O L D S A N O P E N I N G S P E E C H Importance of Youth Initiative B Y R A D M I L A D O D E R ( S E R B I A ) A N D M A R C E L O M A R T I N E Z ( P E R U ) Honorable chair, distinguished delegates, ladies The global drug problem affects youth a lot and and gentlemen.