PATRICIJA
There was a time in our history when smoking was cool, when seat belts were for sissies and when AIDS was seen as a death. Today our attitudes are profoundly different--with powerful and beneficial consequences. Smoking has been cut sharply, and so have the related deaths from lung cancer and heart disease. Auto safety measures have curbed the highway death and injury rate. AIDS is recognized as a serious illness rather than a social curse.
The Lithuanian National Programme on Drug Control and Prevention of Drug Addiction 2010-16 was endorsed by parliament in 2010. The overarching goal of the programme was to reduce the supply of and demand for illicit drugs and psychotropic substances and their precursors and to stop the spread of drug dependence by strengthening individual and public education, health and safety. Several priorities were included in the national programme, which addressed drug demand reduction, in particular among children and young people; drug supply reduction; drug use monitoring; the provision of information; and coordination and international cooperation.
One of the victims of the drug was Patricija, Patricija was a senior in high school. She coached basketball, at the after school program and was the only teen to ever have her own sports articles featured in the school newspaper. She attended church every Sunday and had a strong relationship with the parents. And she had the best friend Amėja.
Patricija was afforded many opportunities - one in particular was a trip to France in 2000. Several weeks before she left for France, her parents Jonas and Vaiva saw occasional strange behavior in her, some weight loss, sleeplessness and dark circles. Parents became concerned, asked questions and tried to figure out what was wrong with their daughter. They tried to talk with her. But she did not say anything, was silent.
The Lithuanian National Programme on Drug Control and Prevention of Drug Addiction 2010-16 was endorsed by parliament in 2010. The overarching goal of the programme was to reduce the supply of and demand for illicit drugs and psychotropic substances and their precursors and to stop the spread of drug dependence by strengthening individual and public education, health and safety. Several priorities were included in the national programme, which addressed drug demand reduction, in particular among children and young people; drug supply reduction; drug use monitoring; the provision of information; and coordination and international cooperation.
One of the victims of the drug was Patricija, Patricija was a senior in high school. She coached basketball, at the after school program and was the only teen to ever have her own sports articles featured in the school newspaper. She attended church every Sunday and had a strong relationship with the parents. And she had the best friend Amėja.
Patricija was afforded many opportunities - one in particular was a trip to France in 2000. Several weeks before she left for France, her parents Jonas and Vaiva saw occasional strange behavior in her, some weight loss, sleeplessness and dark circles. Parents became concerned, asked questions and tried to figure out what was wrong with their daughter. They tried to talk with her. But she did not say anything, was silent.