Today is the United Nations International Day Against drugs so I thought it was apt to fill you in on why this is important to me and what I will be doing today.

Many of you know that I am very passionate and dedicated to my charity work. You may not know that one of the areas I do a lot of work in is drug education.

When I was a kid my uncle overdosed and died from heroin, I also have a history of alcoholism in my extended family and I have seen how this can intensely and traumatically effect lives, families and futures.

Many of you may also know that I left school when I was 12 but you may not know that one of the reasons was the fact that most of the kids in my class were smoking pot and doing other drugs and I just couldn’t understand why they would do that; I had seen what drugs did and it didn’t make sense to me that they would openly choose that path.

Thats when I found out that most of the kids actually had no idea what the drugs and alcohol were made of or what they were doing to their bodies or minds in present time or in the future.

Thats when I first started educating people about the truth about drugs. I think it is very important that people know what it is that they are putting into their bodies and minds and exactly what the ramifications could be.

I have since helped educate more than 100,000 people on this subject and continue to do so through myspace, you tube, school talks, published booklets and more.

Today I have organized and printed more than 25,000 booklets that cover the 4 main drugs that are abused in Australia and will have volunteers all around Australia handing these out, so if you see one of them say gday and tell them you know Carly!

I know its not property but I wont be doing much property today so I thought Id tell you what I was doing!

Cheers,

Carly