Narcobez

I am seriously worried about not only how President Dmitry Medvedev is going to compete with drugs in our schools and universities. I am also bothering me, as reasonable, it would seem, people comment on the president’s initiative to conduct a livestock testing in schools. People, listen, do you really know anything about it or pretend to be illiterate?

Public opinion about the testing of children on drugs in schools was divided in two. The first batch says: drugs are a terrible evil, something needs to be done with this, we will introduce mandatory testing in schools. The second batch objects: testing is not effective, test results will be used against children and their parents.

It is completely not clear why the party, which considers drugs as a serious national problem, sees the way out precisely in testing? It is also absolutely not clear why the opponents of testing bypassing the indisputable fact that drugs are a terrible problem, and something needs to be done with this.

I believe that the former simply do not know any ways to combat drugs, except for testing. And the latter also do not know any ways to combat drugs, and therefore fight at least testing. Meanwhile, effective methods of combating drugs exist. The methods of this struggle exist and have nothing to do with testing. People who own the methods of combating drugs exist, and you can train new ones.

I am a fundamental opponent of testing in schools. But I admit that drugs are a terrible problem, and something needs to be done, and at the state level. Only testing will not help. Suppose such a miracle that the state identified all young people who use drugs. And where will these children go?

There are no specialists in schools or schools who would engage in a drug theme. No one talks about drugs really to children who have not yet tried them. No one reveals dysfunctional children and does not help dysfunctional children who are only waiting for drugs to try so that dysfunction is released for at least four hours and features with them with consequences. No one in schools or out of schools lead anonymous groups for children-consumers. Throughout the country, such groups, perhaps, are two or three, and not one is supported by the state and does not spread its extremely positive experience. Nobody writes “steps” with the children and does not deal with nonsense children's personalities, while the personality is transcorestilled, and not the greed of drug trafficks makes children drug users.

There is no system of drug addiction prevention among children in the country. There is no widely delivered work with children-counterparts in the early stages of their disease. And there is no work with children who have drawn into drug use seriously.

Even if we test all the children and identify all drug users among them, we will not be able to do anything with these children, because we do not have the described and rehabilitation system described above. If the rehabilitation system is built, then psychologists and teachers will find dysfunctional and, therefore, getting into the narcotic risk group of children even before they first try drugs.

Why then do you need testing? Testing is not needed.

If the country has a flu epidemic, you should purchase a flu vaccine, not thermometers in order to identify everyone who has a temperature. And on the other hand, if the country has an epidemic of influenza, you should not refuse to measure temperature on the grounds that this violates human rights.

Why do you understand all this about the flu, but not about drug addiction?