What do you do when you know drugs are a one-way street down, and your friends are taking them? That was the dilemma facing Rama, a teenager from Sydney. "All drugs lead to one place. Nowhere," said Rama, who had already been through it — ecstasy, cocaine, marijuana — all before he was 18 years old.
 | | As a new member of the Drug Free Ambassadors of Sydney this teenager is getting the truth about drugs out to the youth of his city by distributing copies of the booklet "The Truth about Drugs," published by the Foundation for a Drug Free World. |
Rama counts himself as one of the lucky ones. Because he got help when he needed it.
Things were going downhill at breakneck speed when a friend of his, a Scientologist, saw Rama was in trouble. His friend told Rama about a program sponsored by the Church of Scientology of Sydney, called the Drug Free Ambassadors and handed him a set of booklets about drugs. The Drug Free Ambassadors and their American counterpart, the Drug Free Marshals, created by the Church of Scientology International 13 years ago, have chapters throughout Australia and New Zealand and around the world.
The booklets Rama read are very special. They were created by the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, and they are written for young people giving them the truth about the most commonly abused street and prescription drugs. What makes these booklets unique and effective is that they are easy to understand and they're factual. With peer pressure pushing kids to take drugs, these booklets arm kids against the false propaganda, giving them information they need to make educated and responsible choices about drugs.
Once he decided to quit taking drugs, Rama wanted to get through to his friends who were still using them. And he wanted to reach out to kids throughout Sydney to help them avoid getting into drugs in the first place.
Cyrus Brooks, the spokesman for the Drug-Free Ambassadors of Sydney, was full of praise for the teenager. "Rama is very gung-ho. And he knows what he's talking about," said Brooks. "He wants to make sure other kids don't fall into the same trap he was in."
"By providing kids facts about drugs we can help them make responsible decisions," Brooks went on to say. "It's just common sense to do this, but it is also based on a fundamental principle discovered by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, called the 'K-R-C Triangle.'"
Mr. Hubbard wrote: "It is difficult to be responsible for something or control something unless you have KNOWLEDGE of it.
"It is folly to try to control something or even know something without RESPONSIBILITY.
"It is hard to fully know something or be responsible for something over which you have no CONTROL, otherwise the result can be an overwhelm."
"L. Ron Hubbard discovered that by raising one corner of this KRC triangle you raise the other two corners as well," said Brooks, "So our campaign is based on our belief that kids will make responsible decisions if they know the truth about drugs."
For more information on the Drug Free Ambassadors, visit their web site at www.drugfreeambassadors.com.au/ and for information on how you can get the word out about drugs in your own area by printing copies of these booklets for your own school, community group or business, visit the Foundation for a Drug Free World web site.
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