anti-drug
Opposing substance abuse
Anti-drug describes opposition to illegal drugs or efforts to combat their use and distribution: anti-drug policies, anti-drug campaign, anti-drug legislation.
The term appears in law enforcement contexts and public health initiatives.
It can also describe someone personally opposed to drug use: Her parents were fiercely anti-drug.
Official enactment of statutes
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- initiativeSelf-directed action capacity
trafficking · smuggling · cartel · interdiction · law · crackdown · regulation · zero tolerance
Vigorous cause champion
- movementChange in position
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- organizationStructured group with purpose
- parentsMother and father
community · grassroots · lobbying · reform · harm reduction · recovery · sobriety · support group
Stopping something before occurring
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- PSAFree civic advertisement
- Just Say NoDecline firmly, simply
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
school program · outreach · youth · counseling · intervention · rehabilitation · abstinence · peer pressure
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
initiative · trafficking · smuggling · cartel · interdiction · law · crackdown · regulation · zero tolerance · decriminalization
activist
Vigorous cause champion
- movementChange in position
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- organizationStructured group with purpose
parents · community · grassroots · lobbying · reform · harm reduction · recovery · sobriety · support group · spokesperson
prevention
Stopping something before occurring
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- PSAFree civic advertisement
- Just Say NoDecline firmly, simply
curriculum · school program · outreach · youth · counseling · intervention · rehabilitation · abstinence · peer pressure · warning
screening
Evaluative selection process
random · positive · negative · sample · detection · panel · metabolite · cutoff · laboratory · employer
- PSAsPSA, PSAs, health campaigns, drunk driving ads, safe sex campaigns
- Social Reformabolitionism, prohibition, moral reform, reform movement, temperance
- traditionalismfamily values, traditional marriage, nuclear family, morality, patriotism
anti-druglegalization
Making something lawful
decriminalization · permissive · libertarian · harm reduction · drug reform