Funding Available to Reduce Illicit Drug Use

Article from Pharmacygateway

The Federal Government of Canada has announced the availability of more than $7 million for communities across Canada to tackle the challenge of drug use among young people. The funding is available through the Drug Strategy Community Initiatives Fund (DSCIF), which was created in 2004 to promote public awareness of substance use issues and provide support for substance abuse prevention initiatives. The DSCIF provides financial support for a wide range of projects at the national, provincial and local levels. The deadline for proposals is February 29, 2008.
Suggestions for project proposals include those focusing on:
• Informing and educating the public about illicit drugs and the adverse health and social effects of use among youth;
• Facilitating the development of healthy attitudes, resiliency and coping skills among youth to avoid engaging in drug use;
• Promoting healthy behaviors and supportive environments that discourage drug use, and improving access to proven approaches to reducing drug use among vulnerable groups.
Pharmacists are clearly viewed as experts in detailing the effects of drug abuse and are increasingly positioned on the front lines to educate patients, particularly as prescription medications replace non-prescription medications as the more popular substances to abuse.
Doesn’t it make you feel proud being pharmacist here in Canada! One way it is trusting the pharmacists so much giving great responsibility to look after the public and other way showing such an interest to reduce the illicit drug use in the country……I wish Canadian pharmacist take this opportunity and come forward to help the public.

For more information visit: www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/drug-drogues/dscif-ficsa/index_e.html