Resiliency, Substance Use & Sustainable Development Goals

A brief foray into the entangled issues of both growing culture and personal irresilience and the intersection of substance use and the growing environmental fragility.

"All the evidence is in and we now know Alcohol & Other Drugs (AOD) impact no less than 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with Alcohol leading the way, not least because it is culturally entrenched with the highest rating of permission for use, being that it is a legal commercially promoted product. However, illicit substances are catching up, and obviously the pursuit of legalisation of such substances will only add to their enormous capacity to impede fulfilment of international sustainable development goals. (SDG’s)

For this brief foray into this important issue, we are only going to focus on three of these goals, as time here would not permit even a cursory look at AOD impact on the 14 above mentioned related goals.

The irony in all this is that the Sustainable Development Goals are also a casualty of such masterfully masked pro-drug agendas."