Calls upon States to make every effort to ensure that preventive educational work in respect of narcotic drugs and drug abuse is carried out by persons with appropriate training and skills, taking into account the particular needs of groups of people of similar age, skills and psychological characteristics who are at particular risk of abuse of drugs; urges Governments to encourage efforts to ensure that preventive information does not involve elements that evoke curiosity or the desire to experiment with narcotic drugs but clearly indicates the negative, harmful consequences of drug abuse and emphasizes the positive effects of alternative activities and life-style free from narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances; recommends that Governments ensure that preventive information does not contain details that might facilitate access to illicit drugs; requests Governments to inform the Secretary-General of their experience, so that draft special methodological guidelines for a preventive public information programme on the evils of drug abuse may be compiled for consideration and adoption by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

Adopted without vote, 14th meeting

Adopted at the 14th plenary meeting, 26 May 1987.
In: Resolutions and decisions / adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 1st regular session of 1987, 4-29 May 1987. - E/1987/INF/5. - 10 June 1987. - p. 49-50. - Issued in ESCOR, 1987, Suppl. no. 1.