IOGT International is a worldwide community of non-governmental organisations. The aim of IOGT International is the liberation of peoples of the world leading to a richer, freer and more rewarding life. As a means of attaining this aim, IOGT International promotes a lifestyle free of alcohol and other drugs.
We simply need to ensure that alcohol is not dealt with like it was an ordinary commodity. Alcohol is no ordinary commodity. And so we, together and heart driven, need to ensure that our decision-makers put people over profit and give higher consideration to Human Rights than to the interests of corporations, like Big Alcohol.
Alcohol culture in Argentina; or an intoxicating day in Buenos Aires with the alcohol norm omnipresent…
I therefore foresee a very bleak future for my motherland. Children will be left motherless and broke just because the mothers wanted a bit of mythical and imagined class.
Would the proposed alcohol policy be able to take up this initiative towards decentralization of the management of community based programmes for alcohol abuse? Perhaps that’s the need of the hour…
I have to share with you how I feel right now. I feel like Steve Jobs. Those who read a book about him (or knew him personally), know, that Steve was able to cancel an event of launching a new product one day before the Day that many people were waiting for and which was promoted in big style, just because he discovered that there was something about the product that could be improved…
A few thoughts from the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and what lies ahead…
Youth today grow up in a culture that teaches them they are inadequate, and the way to solve it is by using substances. We live in a world that materialistically has never fared better, but that spiritually has never fared worse. We all grow up today with bruised self-esteem and so it is crucial to give youth some power back of their own happiness, their own confidence, their self-image…
One result of my own experiments so far: alcohol in small or moderate amounts is, at best, boring. But company of people consuming small or moderate amounts is pretty good fun. Alcohol in larger amounts is decidedly unpleasant. And company of people consuming large amounts is, at best, utterly boring – and most of the time too unpleasant to endure.