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Title – The African Connection: how the drug gangs found new routes for their trade
Source – The Times
Date – 28th February 2009
Understanding drugs, their effects, the signs and symptoms, drug litter and recognising drug dealing go some way to helping us deal with drug related problems in our workplace. Gaining a better understanding of the real cost of drug use which is one of those problems that is so complicated and so vast as to be incomprehensible, allows us to really get behind ‘zero tolerance’ policies.
Many acknowledge that the fight against drugs is one that can not be won and the world experts concur to a degree. However let us not confuse that with the need to keep fighting in order to mitigate further burden being placed on those people most closely affected by the trade and those areas that are blighted by it.
When people talk about the effects of drugs they most often consider the individual user, I believe that the best way to combat the scourge of drug use is to shame people into stopping, the same way drink driving has been substantially curbed by campaigns showing the unacceptable consequences of drink driving. There will always be an argument that drug users ‘have a choice’ (that in itself is an argument for another time).
The fact is; drug use has serious consequences across the world, it causes major problems including; poverty, war, civil conflict, torture, corruption, global warming, human right abuses, the propping up of illegal regimes, environmental destruction and the failure of entire states.
Since this article was published the commander in chief of Guinea-Bissau was assassinated followed by a swift reprisal in the form of the assassination of the President days later. Mexico is in meltdown as government fights immensely powerful and well resourced drug cartels. Afghanistan’s opium crop largely funds the Taliban’s fight against the Afghan people and the coalition’s troops. Colombian rainforest is slashed and burned to make way for cocoa crop. The list of destruction is long and frightening and linked directly to the ‘west’s’ addition to illegal drugs.
Of the nearly 1 million cocaine users in the UK how many are seriously concerned about global warming, global poverty, civil conflict around the world? How many insist on ‘Fairtrade’ coffee on the one hand and yet snort lines of cocaine? What they give with the one hand they take away with a violent, oppressive and destructive other hand. How many actually realise the cause and effect of their ‘habit’?
We consider the issues surrounding the impact that illegal drugs has on businesses, employees and customers.
In any business there can only be one approach to illegal drugs and that is the adoption of a ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ and enforcement of that policy through Drug Awareness training. We can provide you with this training and using training aids such as our
Drugs Box our training provides realistic and client focussed training which your employees can relate to.Source – The Times
Date – 28th February 2009
Understanding drugs, their effects, the signs and symptoms, drug litter and recognising drug dealing go some way to helping us deal with drug related problems in our workplace. Gaining a better understanding of the real cost of drug use which is one of those problems that is so complicated and so vast as to be incomprehensible, allows us to really get behind ‘zero tolerance’ policies.
Many acknowledge that the fight against drugs is one that can not be won and the world experts concur to a degree. However let us not confuse that with the need to keep fighting in order to mitigate further burden being placed on those people most closely affected by the trade and those areas that are blighted by it.
When people talk about the effects of drugs they most often consider the individual user, I believe that the best way to combat the scourge of drug use is to shame people into stopping, the same way drink driving has been substantially curbed by campaigns showing the unacceptable consequences of drink driving. There will always be an argument that drug users ‘have a choice’ (that in itself is an argument for another time).
The fact is; drug use has serious consequences across the world, it causes major problems including; poverty, war, civil conflict, torture, corruption, global warming, human right abuses, the propping up of illegal regimes, environmental destruction and the failure of entire states.
Since this article was published the commander in chief of Guinea-Bissau was assassinated followed by a swift reprisal in the form of the assassination of the President days later. Mexico is in meltdown as government fights immensely powerful and well resourced drug cartels. Afghanistan’s opium crop largely funds the Taliban’s fight against the Afghan people and the coalition’s troops. Colombian rainforest is slashed and burned to make way for cocoa crop. The list of destruction is long and frightening and linked directly to the ‘west’s’ addition to illegal drugs.
Of the nearly 1 million cocaine users in the UK how many are seriously concerned about global warming, global poverty, civil conflict around the world? How many insist on ‘Fairtrade’ coffee on the one hand and yet snort lines of cocaine? What they give with the one hand they take away with a violent, oppressive and destructive other hand. How many actually realise the cause and effect of their ‘habit’?
We consider the issues surrounding the impact that illegal drugs has on businesses, employees and customers.
In any business there can only be one approach to illegal drugs and that is the adoption of a ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ and enforcement of that policy through Drug Awareness training. We can provide you with this training and using training aids such as our
At Beyond The Blue we run a number of courses for those working in the Licensed Retail Sector including The National Certificate for Licensees Drug Awareness (NCLDA). For other sectors our bespoke Drug Awareness (DA) courses, which examine illegal drugs, their effects and the drug litter synonymous with their use, are specifically designed to reflect the nature of our clients working environment. Our Conflict Management and Resolution (CMR) course complements these courses to help employees deal with Workplace Violence and drug related behaviour.
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