o Out-of-School/Employment Interventions

 To improve seminars held by the national and sub-national governments, organized for effective guidance and improvement in teaching methods and to increase training opportunities to school teachers and drug abuse prevention class instructors.

 To conduct surveys and analyses on a regular basis, examining student awareness toward drugs, the state of drug abuse, in order to study the achievements made and issues involved in drug abuse prevention education.

 To strengthen information exchange on the state of drug abuse among young people and on the harmful effects and hazards of drugs at school-police liaison councils, and to boost closer cooperation between police and school officers and other related parties, including request for early contact whenever drug abuse is found.

 To promote greater awareness among students at universities and colleges, to prevent drug abuse, encouraging Universities to take opportunity of orientation and guidance programs at enrollment and prepare advocacy materials to be used on such occasions.

 To promote improvement in guidance regarding the harmful effects and hazards of cannabis, and synthetic drugs, taking into consideration the situation of local community and the stage of development of students.

STRENGTHENING AWARENESS AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN/OUT OF SCHOOL/EMPLOYMENT

The following strategies are designed for young people in/out of school/employment, who account for a large part of young people arrested for stimulant drug-related offenses, in order to impart accurate knowledge on the harmful effects and hazards of drug abuse and to rehabilitate/implant consciousness not to abuse drugs any longer.

- To promote awareness of young people in/out of school/employment in labor-related organizations, youth labor-related organizations. - To promote awareness of drug abuse prevention among young people in/out of school/employment through street campaigns.

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