If there is a way to prevent the misuse of drugs, of course, is the family and school, through anti-drug education. Thus, the child learns at home and after school, to take good care of yourself, respect each other as is, without having to use drugs to enhance or to assert themselves before others. Also, be aware that your body is not a trash can where drugs are introduced, or a chemical laboratory that everything needs to experience.

Below, an extract about the community and parents should act to combat drug use:

• Early approach: An American writer, Peggy Mann, ontological wrote a book, whose title is the original Twelve is too old (Twelve years is already too late). According to the author, must begin to educate about drugs even children of 9, 10 and 11 years. The best schools in the country work on issues like sex and drugs as early as in 5 ª s series. The sooner you start teaching, the better.
• Educational programs: Working together to provide ongoing educational programs about drugs in schools, or even outside them. Such programs should be aimed at children, adolescents, and young adults. These programs should aim initially to the human capacity in the sector, ie prior to educate our children, we must educate parents and teachers. It is necessary to form multipliers for such educational work.
• Mobilizing the community: Mobilize the community to participate in the project. Every parent or community leader should strive to implement the debates and lectures on the subject, especially those aimed at the direction of lay.
• Statistical Surveys: Raising the extent of the problem. The confidential questionnaires after lectures, conferences, courses and lectures on drugs is a good measure. Questionnaires should be prepared by neutral experts who are not involved with the program, to avoid errors or omissions and should be done in order to preserve strict anonymity. Do not be applied randomly, but after proper directions and the appropriate audience, seeking to capture their trust to get honest answers and reliable.
• Provision of new activities: To expand and diversify opportunities, promoting occupations and leisure facilities where the drug has no place. Therefore, it is important to offer a wide range of sporting, recreational, cultural, scientific, community services and others. Stimulating the creative imagination of children, adolescents and young people, supporting them in these initiatives, is another excellent option.
• Setting Goals: Set goals realistic and humanly feasible. For example, it can be set as a goal the use of tranquilizers broker under medical supervision, as valuable therapeutic weapons where are indicated, and do not want to simply eliminate them from therapy. Another example, is fighting for parents to not provide alcoholic beverages or cigarettes to your children, and not wanting to make them (the parents) totally abstain.
• Encourage the training of professionals: enlist (in programs or prevention campaigns) professionals with specialized training (general practitioners, psychiatrists, psycho-pharmacologists, psychologists, social workers, pharmacists, biochemists), or people with basic qualifications in health, education, social service and related areas. It is important to be used a language close to the target audience.
• Exam preparation: Arrange extension courses, conferences, seminars, symposia, summer courses, specialization courses and others in different areas of drug abuse in order to prepare and gain multipliers workforce.
• Establishment of programs to establish, with realism, the programs to be completed so that they can actually reach the target population. For example, there may be similar programs for young street children (where the most common use is to volatile solvents - glue, etc.) and programs directed to students in private schools (which generally is more common marijuana and amphetamines, and sometimes cocaine). Not to mention the profound socio-economic differences of target populations.
• Mobilization of public opinion: Mobilizing public opinion through meetings, conferences, seminars, contests, slogans, banners, themes, phrases, messages. Especially among the youth. The aim of these projects is to highlight the seriousness of the problem and its impact on portraying the social environment. This type of prevention is technically called primary prevention, according to the Proposal for a National Drug Policy, established by the Federal Drug Council in 1992, aims to:

a) Anticipate the beginning of the experience of drug use, experience that experienced at different levels - the family group, the school community, the medical profession and the virtual User;
b) Interrupted the growing use of experimental avoid problems arising from drug use, abuse and dependence, which are primary effects and side effects.

Before proceeding, let us know the risk factors that the World Health Organization (WHO) defined to consider a person more prone to drug use: no adequate information about the effects of drugs, with poor health, unhappy with their quality of life personality poorly integrated, with easy access to drugs. In contrast, people were less likely to use drugs that would be: well informed, in good health, with satisfactory quality of life, well integrated into the family and society, with difficult access to drugs.