Pubdate: Thu, 01 Feb 2007
Source: Cloverdale Reporter (CN BC)
Copyright: 2007 Cloverdale Reporter News
Contact:  http://www.cloverdalereporter.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3407
Author: Ursula Maxwell
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm (Methamphetamine)

SURREY SCHOOL VEHICLES TELL KIDS: 'SAY NO TO METH'

Talk to your kids about drugs, you might save their life. That's the 
message from Surrey School District #36, the City of Surrey, and the 
Province of BC. They hope to get that message out through a campaign 
with School Fleet Media and partners Career Gate Community College 
and the Surrey Board of Trade.

Recently the team unveiled a new school vehicle ad campaign to get 
people talking about the dangers of Meth and to promote the new 
resource center at www.no2meth.ca.

"We want to try to prevent anyone from using Meth," says Dennis 
Isbister of School Fleet Media. He says, "I first became aware of 
Meth and what it could do when I saw a girl screaming as if she was 
trying to get rid of all the bones in her body from the inside out. I 
asked someone what was wrong with her, and was told she was a Meth addict"

Further investigation through the Surrey Crime Prevention Society and 
others prompted him to take action via his company and the new 
vehicle ad campaign. "It scared the heck out of me," the former 
Canada Council rep says. If the ads featured on vehicles spark 
awareness of this mind altering, destructive, and easily produced 
plague while driving on highways and school grounds, he feels it will 
be a good start to fighting the problem. The ads feature phone 
numbers and the website address where parents, students, and teachers 
can get information and help. People can also report drugs use or 
illicit sales.

Methamphetamine is an extremely potent drug on its own, but it's often laced

With other compounds. Addiction can happen with one use, and it can 
turn a life around permanently by altering the brain and thinking. 
"We want to say no2meth and you can find out what to say at the new 
website at www.no2meth.ca ," says this Surrey father and businessman 
referring to the new website.