Facts For Policymakers
Facts For Policymakers
Facts For Policymakers
Most children and adolescents will never use drugs, and those who do
are often affected by vulnerabilities beyond
their control.
1 out of 10
Of these, at least The earlier children start to experiment with drugs,
will suffer immediate or long-term the more likely they are to develop drug
consequences to their physical or dependence later in life.
mental health.
Listening to children and youth
is the first step to help them
grow healthy and safe
LISTEN FIRST
Support science-based
prevention to make them
happy and resilient.
Positive families,
schools and
communities.
Listening to children and youth
is the first step to help them
grow healthy and safe
When reaching adulthood, boys that had shown signs of aggressive behaviour in the first year of primary school
AND
in the control group will graduate
from high school
Saving up to
30 times the
Saving amount of funds
social and invested in
health care costs prevention
Listening to children and youth
is the first step to help them
grow healthy and safe
www.unodc.org/listenfirst
“Listen FIRST”
is open to all interested Member States, civil society, academic and international organizations.
ALREADY INVOLVED
Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Chile, China, CICAD, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, EMCDDA, Estonia, France, Georgia,
Germany, Greece, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mentor International,
Mexico, Myanmar,Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Peru, the Philippines, the Pompidou
Group, Portugal, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden,
Switzerland, Tajikistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, UNODC, Uzbekistan, WHO.
Mission
interministérielle
de lutte contre
les drogues et les
conduites addictives