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The Eindhoven Declaration on Protecting the Child from Illicit Drug Use and Securing a Drug-Free Environment.

The Eindhoven has seven key recommendations which will lead to ensuring a drug-free environment and that children are protected from illicit drug use.

These are:

  1. SECURE A DRUG-FREE SOCIETY by protecting the right of all, particularly children, to live in a drug-free environment
  2. PRIORITIZE PREVENTION of initiation or onset of illicit drug use in all policy and action plans
  3. PROTECT CHILDREN from exposure and participation in environments trivializing or encouraging illicit drug use
  4. MOBILIZE THE COMMUNITY to assume ownership and leadership of efforts at addressing illicit drug use
  5. RESIST AND REJECT the push to normalize illicit drug use
  6. UNEQUIVOCALLY ESTABLISH that there is, and can be, no right whatsoever, to detract from the right of the child to a drug-free life and an environment free from drugs. Thus all claims to a so-called ‘right to use drugs’ can have no legal substance
  7. ENSURE THAT REGULATORY AGENCIES charged with certifying medicines adhere to the scientifically rigorous and time-tested pathways to registering such products when dealing with controlled substances such as cannabis, LSD, MDMA, psilocybin, and other such substances and their derivatives.

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