drug freeOutside of your family, friends and co-workers, your community is the next basic unit of society. If you give some of your time and care to keeping your community safe, your community will most likely do the same for you. This community could be composed of just your immediate neighborhood, or it could be as broad as your entire town. Whatever you consider your community to be (and this is usually dictated by how broad of an area you want to take responsibility for and be involved in), there are several key actions you can take to help keep it safe and drug-free.

After all, keeping drug abuse out of your community is one of the most important parts of keeping it safe. In honor of June being National Safety Month, Narconon Arrowhead is discussing several of the most important ways you can work to make your community a safer and happier place for everyone to live.

Get to Know your Neighbors

It’s a sad commentary on modern society, but many people don’t actually know very much about their neighbors. This might be due to hearing lots of bad news through the media and having a general fear of everyone, but this usually isn’t the case. Most of your neighbors are probably friendly, well-meaning people if you give them the chance.

It’s vital to get to know your neighbors well so that you can work together to keep your community safe. When you know each other on a first name basis and get to know each other’s schedules and habits, you can start to spot who doesn’t belong in your neighborhood, such as drug dealers.

Never Allow Drinking and Driving

Another important way of keeping your community safe is by not allowing drinking and driving of any form. This starts in your own home, of course, but it extends to community events. If you’re having a neighborhood barbecue and you see someone that is intoxicated heading toward a vehicle, talk to him or his friends and family and help him make the choice not to drive. When everyone keeps an eye out for this unsafe behavior, we can all help prevent it from happening.

Educate Your Kids on Drug Safety

Again, safety starts in your own home. Talk to your kids about the dangers of drugs and how they can keep safe by not using them. Give your kids all the information they need to start making these decisions for themselves. When they have all the information, it’s a lot easier to know why they shouldn’t use drugs, instead of just taking your word for it.

Participate in Drug Take Back Events

Many Americans use a prescription drug (or multiple drugs) and these can be abused by family members or even friends and strangers if you just leave them lying around in your house. In order to help prevent this, many communities provide drug take back events. Look for these at you local police station or hospital, and give them any unused or expired medications.

Don’t Look the Other Way When it Comes to Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

When you’re aware of someone in your community abusing drugs or alcohol, it can be far too easy to look the other way and pretend like it’s not your problem. Instead of taking this viewpoint, recognize that you can have an impact on keeping everyone in your community healthy and happy. If you start by getting to know your neighbors well, you can step in and talk to them before drug abuse progresses too far.

Reference:

PRWeb.com: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11881981.htm