Sunday, December 20, 2009

Church of Scientology Fighting Teen Drug Abuse

The Church of Scientology is targeting one of the a lot of adverse forms of boyhood biologic bribery with a accent accessible account advertisement about the adulterous use of decree drugs.

Los Angeles, CA -- Statistics appearance a alarming trend in decree biologic abuse, decidedly a allotment of teens. In Arizona, the bounded appointment of the DEA appear this anniversary that Phoenix top academy acceptance bribery decree drugs added than harder drugs like cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Police in West Virginia appear bygone that 75% of adolescence at one average academy accept been apparent to decree biologic abuse. And a adventure beforehand this anniversary acicular out that sixty percent of Wisconsin teenagers accept acceptance to controlled substances in and about their homes and 20 percent of them accept abused them to get high. Only yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration appear affairs to abate the risks of adulterous use of affliction medication, citation a 2007 analysis assuming that in one month, 5.2 actor Americans age-old 12 or earlier acclimated decree affliction meds for non-medical purposes.

Because Scientology churches about the apple backpack out grass roots activities to advice adolescence accomplish abreast choices about drugs, the Church of Scientology International became acquainted of the austere blackmail decree biologic bribery presents to today's adolescence and created a accessible account advertisement to accession acquaintance of the botheration to advice about-face this trend. This anxious 1-minute video impacts teens, advertisement the lie that decree biologic bribery is "safe" or "trendy" by assuming its baleful consequences.

This video is one of a alternation of 16 accessible account films produced by the Church of Scientology for the non-profit Foundation for a Drug-Free World. Graphically illustrating the accoutrement of frequently abused substances, the films aswell ambition alcohol, meth, heroin cocaine, crack, marijuana and Ecstasy, in accession to decree biologic abuse.

These films are allotment of a alternation of educational abstracts provided by the Foundation cover booklets, posters and added teaching aids, created by the Church of Scientology for educators, adolescence groups and government institutions.

Last week, bags of football admirers advancing on Tampa for the Super Bowl watched two of these anti-drug films throughout the weekend. These accessible account announcements appeared alternate alongside celebrity interviews, sports highlights, previews and bounded account on two super-screens (120 and 400 aboveboard feet) erected in Ybor City and Channelside Florida by the London-based alfresco broadcasting avant-garde Hill Davenport.

All sixteen of these anti-drug films can be beheld on the Scientology web website at www.scientology.org and www.drugfreeworld.org.

Contact: Wendy Beccaccini, Say No to Drugs Coordinator for the Church of Scientology International--(323) 960 3500

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