NATIONAL NEWS - To promote Drug Awareness Week, SANCA (SA National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence) is encouraging everyone to participate in its annual Kick Your Habit campaign.
Running from 24 - 30 June, the 7-day challenge calls on participants to give up one thing they cannot live without.
Whether it’s chocolate, fizzy drinks, social media or coffee, kick the habit for just seven days.
The Kick Your Habit campaign is aimed at raising awareness at the complexities surrounding addiction and dependence, and seeks to build awareness through experience.
By giving up one habit that gives you pleasure, you can experience what a substance dependent may go through during treatment.
With experience comes education, and this is the ultimate aim of the campaign.
Participants are encouraged to keep a daily log which could even be an online blog, of their progress, including cravings and physical and emotional challenges while experiencing withdrawals.
The public participation campaign also aims to confront the stigma attached to substance abuse, with the understanding that anyone can become an addict.
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