Significance of International Anti-Drug Day

Significance of International Anti-drug Day International Anti-drug Day is one of the basic tasks to protect citizens' physical and mental health and safeguard national legal authority.

June 26th every year is International Anti-Drug Day.

1987 June 12-26, the United Nations held a ministerial conference on drug abuse and illegal trafficking in Vienna, which was attended by more than 3,000 representatives from 138 countries. The conference put forward the slogan "Love life, don't take drugs". The deputies to the parliament unanimously agreed to designate June 26th as the International Day against Drugs, so as to draw the attention of all countries in the world to the drug problem, and at the same time, they called on people all over the world to make joint efforts to solve and publicize the drug problem.

Every year around "6.26" International Anti-Drug Day, governments at all levels will focus on anti-drug publicity activities through newspapers, radio, television and other news media. June 26th, 2023 is the 36th International Anti-Drug Day. The theme of the International Anti-Drug Day is "Anti-Drug for All, Healthy Living".

Political Declaration on the International Day against Drug Abuse

The Political Declaration holds that illegal narcotics and psychotropic substances pose a serious threat to all countries in the world, and all countries should take coordinated actions to combat drugs in the next decade. The declaration pointed out that while expanding the scope of international cooperation in banning illegal narcotics and psychotropic substances, the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries and non-interference in other countries' internal affairs should be strictly observed.

The declaration urged the international community to strengthen anti-drug education and publicity, called on major drug-consuming countries such as the United States to reduce the consumption of illegal drugs, and asked some countries to gradually eliminate the cultivation and production of drugs. The Global Programme of Action holds that in the action against drug abuse and illegal drug trafficking, countries should formulate a balanced strategy and put it into practice.

These measures mainly include: reducing the demand for drugs, eliminating and replacing the production and processing of illegal drugs, prohibiting drug trafficking, establishing treatment and rehabilitation measures, and strengthening drug control and related legal systems. The programme also called for the establishment of a monitoring body to ensure the implementation of the drug control plan, and decided to give priority to the demand for financial, human and other resources related to drug control within the United Nations system.

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