IFNGO Malaysia

As the 1981 Kuala Lumpur International Federation of Non-Government Organisations for Prevention of Drug & Substance Abuse, IFNGO Joint Declaration acknowledges, substance abuse transcends ethnic, geographical, political, cultural and religious boundaries, and requires the active participation of the whole community for its control, reduction and eventual eradication (IFNGO, 1996).

One of the agreed Ways Forward from the 18th IFNGO Conference related to leadership in advocating policies and implementing best practice. It was agreed that IFNGO should develop a common policy statement.

This policy statement recognises that each country has begun the process of addressing the enormous issue of the abuse of drugs and that many member countries are at a different stage of development of a national response.

This policy statement seeks to:

• outline the extent of the global problem and the global strategies that are being put in place to address the problem;
• outline the problems and strategies at a regional level; in selected cases, outline country specific problems and strategies; and
• outline actions that can be taken by individual Organisations and by the IFNGO collectively.