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Drug Awareness Week set to kick off June 25-30.

Drug abuse can have detrimental effects on users and society as a whole and it is because of this that SANCA Drug Awareness Week was created. The South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug (SANCA) Drug Awareness Week kicks off on June 25 and will run through to June 30. This falls in with International Day against Drug Trafficking, which takes place on June 26. During this time, emphasis will be put on healthy lifestyles, while urging those already addicted to various drugs to seek necessary help.

The fight against drugs is an on-going battle that continues long after the end of the awareness week. As a result, Lancet Laboratories has joined forces with SANCA to ensure that young people at risk of drug misuse or who are experimenting with drugs have access to a range of testing, advice, counselling, treatment, rehabilitation and after care service. And to also raise awareness among communities and the youth in particular about the negative effects of abusing drugs. Lancet believes that “we have to give our youth an opportunity to give their existence meaning and being drug-free while gaining an education is one of the better gifts we can give them.”

For more information visit the various Sanca websites for each region: www.sanca-jhb.org.za/, www.sancawc.co.za/ and www.sancadbn.co.za/