Campaign For Drug-Free Families
News and Views Weekly E-Zine
Introduction Issue #1
We Have A System and We’re On A Mission
To Turn Kids Into Kids Against Drugs!
Dear,
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September 11, 2001 was a day that many will never forget. What happened in New York City at the World Trade Center and in Washington, D.C. is a powerful example of what one person can accomplish if he or she sets their mind to it. We witnessed a terrible and horrible catastrophe of monumental proportions. This well planned and coordinated act of terror indeed captured the attention of the whole civilized world and our thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of families who are directly touched by it.
Terrorism has many faces but its purposes are always the same. It not only destroys buildings and lives with its covert plans and suicide attacks, but it hopes to create fear and erode self-confidence making society feel unsure, unsafe and vulnerable. The terrorist strives to rule with threats and unpredictable violence. Terrorists strike, run and hide. They want the publicity of their attacks but avoid personal recognition. They do their work in secret.
While the violence of September 11 will not soon be forgotten, the changes in our lives will be immediate and will last forever. This act of terrorism had tremendous impact and our nation and its citizens will never be the same.
I am struck by the similarity of the methods used by these terrorists and by those people who distribute and sell drugs to the citizens of our nation. These people also use violence, fear, secrecy and force to peddle slavery and destruction to our young people. In effect they are terrorists too. Though they do not use the tools of mass destruction in one surprise single event to accomplish their work they are very effective and are bringing about a mass destruction to our society that is just as deadly and horrible. The large numbers of their victims is staggering. The dollar cost of recreational drug use to society is catastrophic and appears to be escalating.
The smooth talking, friendly drug pushing terrorists are targeting our youth. They use loud music, rap, movies, videos, concerts to make bad manners, vulgarity, loose morals, irresponsible sex popular and acceptable. They bad mouth authority and responsibility and make fun of God, country and family values, put down things that are good, wholesome, valuable and praiseworthy. They turn fine upstanding young people into zombies and slaves, their lives and futures being wasted.
Since September 11, we are anxious to find the terrorists who destroy buildings and lives’ and we now have the ear of the leaders of nations and their promises to find and destroy those people who would be responsible for this senseless mass destruction. But what of those terrorists who destroy our youth, one at a time? What are we doing about them? I know we have the ‘war on drugs’ going on and much time energy and many resources are being expended to find and destroy the actual drugs that they produce and the people who are responsible, but drug use increases daily and children across the nation and in every community are becoming addicted around the clock. What can we do? How? When? Where? Who?
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Quote of the week: “Our polls say half of parents have talked to their children about drugs. Parents say, about 90% of them, they’ve talked to their kids about drug use. Children say 34% have been talked to by parents about drug use.” “We stopped talking about drug use.” Barry McCaffrey, Clinton Drug czar.
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I am the father of 6 children and I have 7 grandchildren and 15 years ago I became involved in fighting recreational drug use and abuse. Since that time I have traveled across the nation on a one-man crusade to sound a warning voice about the terrorists who are among us as wolves in sheep clothing. I have visited with those who are consumed by the drug culture and are fighting for their lives on the streets and in their homes and learned about the drug issue from them. For four years I worked with an International organization of treatment centers and had interaction with hundreds of patients on a regular basis. That exposure and introduction to the destruction that recreational drugs are doing to our youth changed my life and I have been on my crusade since.
Over the past 15 years I have been educated, trained and received the experience that I have to organize and lead a grassroots movement to educate our youth and their families about recreational drugs and to warn them about the drug pushing terrorists, those wolves in sheep clothing who are using their slick talk and friendly ways to suck our kids into the endless misery of recreational drugs.
In 1998 I discovered the Internet and set out to learn all about it. I discovered how it works and how to design, develop and market a product with it. I designed, wrote and put together a web site http://www.kidsagainstdrugs.com/ and I’m writing this E-zine. I have launched the largest grassroots movement ever to reach and teach individual families how to avoid recreational drugs. I am inviting you to join with us.
Our web site, http://www.kidsagainstdrugs.com/ is unique and has many areas of interest. We have a teen area, which has information teens can use for school reports and such. We are expanding this part of the site to include a teen chat room, a Club for school or church groups to be part of.
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Family Action Tip of the week: Hold regular family council meetings weekly. Schedule them at the same time and on the same night every week. Require everyone to be present.
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In our family area we share the techniques families can use to talk with their children about recreational drugs in the privacy of their own homes. These are taken from some of the chapters included in our ‘Kids Against Drugs Family Action Training Plan’ Click Here . We explain what this plan is and how you can purchase it. In each issue of this newsletter we will encourage our readers who have not already purchased it to go ahead and purchase and use the ‘Kids Against Drugs Family Action Training Plan’. We point out that this not only helps them teach their children about and how to avoid recreational drugs but it generates the funds we need to continue the work of the campaign here and across the country.
In our affiliate area we recruit families and individuals to join us in the ‘Kids Against Drugs Campaign For Drug-Free Families’. We will use this e-zine to inform and motivate our affiliate readers about the Campaign and promote and sponsor activities across the country to save our kids from recreational drug use. Affiliate’s will earn commissions from sales of the Family Action Training Plan and various other products from our soon to be launched E-store. These sales are the source of the funds needed for the operation purposes of the Campaign.
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The purpose of this e-zine is to inform and motivate our readers about the recreational drug issue and show them what they can do to protect their own children. We have the system and are on a mission to find parents who will teach their kids and turn them into Kids Against Drugs.
I intend to share the experiences I have had and what I have learned along the way. From time to time I will include articles from those qualified professionals I have met and work with. I will include interviews with individuals about their experiences on the front lines in the drug war. I am soliciting articles, poetry and other writings that may be of interest to my readers and relate to our subject.
We have an archive for these e-zines and they will be available to our Campaign Affiliates. There are many other things we have discussed about our program and as we develop these we will notify our membership through this e-zine.
Soon, we will introduce a traveling workshop, which will be held in various locations across the nation and those locations and times will be published in this e-zine.
This promises to be an interesting and worthwhile newsletter for me and I hope it is for the reader. I am excited about the future of the campaign and it’s purposes. United and informed we can teach our children about the dangers and facts of recreational drug use and how to stomp it out in our homes.
In the Kids Against Drugs Campaign For Drug-Free Families we teach our children how to recognize and avoid the drug pushing terrorists they associate with every day at school, church and in the neighborhood. We believe this message has to be taught and reinforced in the home before it will work effectively in the community. We believe the only practical way of stopping the spread of recreational drugs is to stop using them. Our work is to teach and encourage people to do just that.
Until next time, peace and May God Be With You and Yours.
Michael J. Meredith,
President/CEO America’s Drug Prevention Network, Inc.
E-mail: Click Here