Drugs, alcohol and violence

ORGANISING a community youth association is the key to happiness.
No one disagrees that moral standards have declined over the decades.
Skyrocketing drug and alcohol abuse, now all too prevalent among young people, has brought increased crime to schools, cities and our country.
Statistics show that the proliferation of drugs and escalating violence go hand in hand.
Honesty, decency and a sense of self-respect are perverted daily from a multitude of sources.
Our youths are exposed to peer pressure, and associations with ill-intentioned people who seek to make their living by destructive means and degradation, without discrimination or scruple.
And as we are all too aware, violence is not just limited to dark alleys and back streets. Bloodshed in school classrooms, school lunch halls and even the playgrounds is far too common.

Joelbalen_Kula @ DCA
Madang