From June 12, 2007 to July 9, 2007, in the Documents of International Organizations Reading Room (the 2nd floor, room 207g) is open a book exhibition “We Choose the Life!” dedicated to the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking.

On December 6, 1987 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution 42/112, by which it decided to annually, on June 26, celebrate the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking. This event is an expression of the political will of nations to combat the drug menace and as a means of tackling the serious and complex international drug problem in all its forms.

During 100 years the human society has been trying to fight or at least to control the illicit drug trafficking, but this issue is far from being solved.

Drugs as psychoactive substances are not good or evil in itself. But drug abuse spread in the human society is obviously evil. It is one of the most awful phenomena of the modern world, the disease of all countries. Today over 220 million people take drugs throughout the world.

Materials exposed at the exhibition inform visitors on efforts of governments and international organizations in the field of the development of international cooperation to prevent and reduce the problems due to psychoactive substance use.

Drug abuse is a global phenomenon. Growth of dispenses on medicine, breakup of families, spread of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis infection, such are the consequences of drug abuse and injecting drug abuse.

The central section of the exhibition presents materials informing on the activity on drug abuse prevention, and development and implementation of programs on treatment, rehabilitation and social reintegration of drug addicts.

Drug abuse leads to the growth of crime and violence. The particular section of the exhibition presents literature which informs on legal grounds of the fight against illicit drug trafficking, and analyses legislative regulation of the fight against drug dealing.

The exposition comprises 70 materials published in the last 6 years in the Russian, German, French, and English languages: books, periodicals, the United Nations’ mimeographed materials (mastheads), and brochures. We invite to the exhibition workers of social and medical institutions and law enforcement agencies, professors, students, pedagogues, and everyone who is interested in the issues of drug abuse.

Related links:

the United Nations

•United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

oInternational Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking

oGlobal Youth Network

oDrug Abuse & Demand Reduction

oUN Crime and Drug Conventions

oInternational Narcotics Control Board

•Global issues on the UN Agenda: Drug Control and Crime Prevention

•Commission on Narcotic Drugs

UNESCO

•Unesco and Drug Abuse Prevention through Education