Transcript The challenges and experience of Drug addiction in the Murmansk

The challenges and
experience of
Drug prevention
in the Murmansk Region
Russian-Finnish project
Addressing Adolescent Drug Abuse
in the Murmansk Region (2004-2006)
• Finnish - Russian co-operation project
• funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
of Finland
• coordinated by the University of Lapland,
Department of Social Work (Rovaniemi,
Finland)
Project co-operation
• three institutes of higher education in
Murmansk giving education in social work
• several authorities and organizations
dealing with youth work and drug
prevention in the Murmansk region
• selected educational institutes in the city of
Murmansk
• other Finnish – Russian organizations
The objectives of the project
• to support the development of
preventive services improving the
welfare of children and the youth
in the Murmansk region
• to form a foundation for creating
preventive working methods
Special emphasis is on
• perspectives of social work
• an overall view of adolescent’s
situation in life and social setting
Project activities
• To carry out an assessment of the situation
by examining the living contexts of
adolescent drug users, youth’s attitude
towards drugs as well as the challenges of
drug prevention provided in the Murmansk
region.
• To create the knowledge base for
development of working methods for drug
prevention and social work.
Project activities
• To apply the preventive working methods into
practice within the activities of the drug
prevention education centre founded in the
duration of the project.
• To establish co-operation between different units
in the field of work with adolescent drug users.
• To broaden the knowledge base of social work
in partner institutes of higher education and to
strengthen the role of social work in issues
connected with children and youth.
The functions of the Inter-departmental Commission for
Counteraction to Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking at the
Government of the Murmansk Region
• coordinates activity of all stakeholders in the sphere of
counteraction of illegal narcotics and psychotropic
substances trafficking;
• organizes development and coordinates realization of
the regional anti-drug program, which will be
illuminated below.
• prepares and puts forward in accordance with
established procedure proposals on enhancement of
statutory and legislation acts related to counteraction of
narcotics misuse and their illegal trafficking.
The levels of coordination of local selfgovernment activities aimed at
drug prevention work
• The first level:
Interaction of Regional
Anti-Drug Commission with
municipal commissions
(working groups,
coordination councils).
The levels of coordination of local selfgovernment activities aimed at
drug prevention work
• The second level:
Authority coordination
- Juvenile and Children’s Rights
Protection Commission at the
Government of the Murmansk region;
- Department on Youth Affairs of the
Murmansk region;
- Education Committee of the
Murmansk region;
- Murmansk Regional
Narcological Dispensary;
- Culture and Arts Committee of
the Murmansk region.
The directions of
the preventive activity:
• reduction of narcotics offer (function of
special services and police, energies of
public opinion)
• reduction of demand for narcotics
(activity of many interested
organizations: health, youth, education
institutions, NGOs, and many others)
7 principles of drug prevention work
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Cooperation instead of competition
Public and political support
Energies of all participants
Long-term duration
Insistence
Setting of clear goals
Efficiency evaluation
Classification of the prevention adopted
by the Worldwide Health Organization
•primary;
•secondary;
•tertiary.
Primary prevention
Prevention of drug taking
experience
Target group:
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Children
Adolescents
Youth
Parents
Secondary prevention
Work with novice drug consumers in order not to let
them further experimenting with drugs
Target group A
(identification, incl. early identification):
- theoretically, the whole age group of 15-35 olds :
Target group B
(early intervention):
- theoretically, everyone, who has had at least singular
experience of narcotics consumption, except a medical
one
Tertiary prevention
treatment and rehabilitation of drug
addicts, as well as psychological work
with their relatives.
Target group:
- persons acknowledged as drug addicts
according to medical certificate or being
those actually
Primary prevention
• special
(dispersing of information in the target group
about the negative impacts of drug
consumption on the different life fields).
Methods: lectures, trainings, talk-shows, round
tables, debates, posters, booklets, films, and
advertising. These methods can be used both
separately and within various big-scale actions,
e.g. traditional in the Murmansk region
SOS Decade
Primary prevention
• positive
(advertising of alternative ways of getting
sharp feelings, focusing on positive sides
of life, popularization of active leisure,
creativity, sports)
Methods: social advertising, creative
competitions, sporting events, and
volunteer movements based on the
principle “coeval to coeval”.
Secondary prevention
• identification, incl. early detection
Methods:
- conduction of compulsory tests
on content of narcotics trails
- informing parents and
pedagogues about indicators of
intoxication: physiological,
psychological and behavioural
Secondary prevention
•early intervention:
complex of measures
of social, psychological
and medical character
Tertiary prevention
• treatment, rehabilitation and work
with drug-addicts and their
relatives
• activity of communities like
“Anonymous Drug Addicts” and
“Anonymous relatives of drug
addicts”
Regional anti-drug program SOS
• “Enhancement of legislative
basis”
• “Organisational measures”
• “Strengthening of material and
technical basis of the institutions
carrying out preventive work”
Regional anti-drug program SOS
• “Stopping of illegal narcotics
trafficking”
• “Peopleware of the program”
• “International cooperation”
• “Informational provision of the
program”
• “Work with mass media”
• “Activities to create healthy life-style.
Public actions”
Higher educational
institutions’ courses
concerning addictive behavior
• The aim of the courses is
to reveal the main points of
social-pedagogic and social
work activity with children
of addictive behavior
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• Necessary knowledge:
forms and methods of the preventive
work
process of forming of addictive behavior
reasons of junction to using of
psychoactive substances
factors prevented this
technologies of social-pedagogical activity
with children inclined to addictive
behavior
Training directions
• Theoretical:
• Lectures
• Independent
trainings
• Writing of course
and graduate
works
• Practical:
• practical work
• trainings
• practice in
establishments of
social type
• volunteer projects
• researches
• participating in “SOS
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• Students’ practice:
researches
working out of individual corrections
programs
working out and inculcation of the
primary preventive programs
carrying out of preventive socialpsychological actions
Alternative kinds of activity
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• Bases for students’ practice:
children’s homes
social shelters
Schools and gymnasiums
Center of social help to family and children
Center of social health of the youth and family
planning
Clubs “Podrostok” (“Adolescent”)
The regional narcological dispensary
• Alternative kinds of activity:
• festivals
• outdoor and role games
• master-class on vocal, choreography
and dramatization
• profession-orientation work with
pupils
• Volunteer activity:
• All-Russian action “Give up smoking!”
• “SOS decade”
- organizing and conducting of subject quizzes;
- organizing of class hour
- working out and conducting of role games
- carrying out of trainings
• - program “Luch Dobra” (“Ray of Good”)
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