Combating Drug Addiction among Children by the UNICEF

Abstract

The article focuses on drugs and on the ways how to combat this problem because drugs influence many spheres of our lives and one of the most significant goals of the human kind is to find a remedy to drug addiction and elaborate ways of fighting circulation of drugs. One of the crucial problems here is the inclusion of children into the sphere of interests of drug dealers who drag them into this business for the sake of extra gains. We witness the horror and the complexity of the problem and clearly see the necessity of dealing with it as it touches upon every one of us and especially our children Further the article offers the list of most common drugs and demonstrates effects they have on people. Afterwards the author shifts to the legal ways of fighting different aspects of drug addiction and circulation of drugs and enumerates several conventions on this subject.
In its latter part the author pays attention to the ways of combating drug-addiction in the framework of the UN and particularly UNICEF. The Children’s Fund of the United Nations Organization together with the international and regional organizations, official bodies, educational centers implements different programs in the sphere of prevention, assistance and research in the field of fighting drugs. The UNICEF tries to unite the states to cooperate against “drug epidemic” by developing different programs, projects, and charitable actions. The complex strategy directed towards the reduction of drug abuse and spread of a HIV-infection, is of vital importance, as it will make the struggle against drugs more effective.