JOAN BELLM
FOUNDER, DRUG WATCH INTERNATIONAL
LIFETIME HONORARY BOARD MEMBER
ILLINOIS
Joan Bellm has worked for over 20 years as a volunteer drug prevention specialist with numerous local, state, national, and international organizations and government agencies.She has developed volunteer communication networks at state, national, and international levels. She consulted with the United Nations in the development of a Non-Governmental drug prevention network. Ms Bellm is the founder of Illinois Drug Education Alliance, Drug Watch International, and the International Drug Strategy Institute. She is co-founder of the National Red Ribbon Campaign and past National Networker for the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth. She is past Prevention Chairman of the Illinois Governor's Advisory Council and has served on the Advisory Boards of the Illinois Secretary of State and the Illinois Department of Transportation. Ms Bellm is editor of Drug Watch World News, an international publication, and she publishes a weekly drug information newspaper column. Joan Goldsby Bellm is listed in numerous "Who's Who" publications and in Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England.
JOHN J. COLEMAN, Ph. D.
PRESIDENT, DRUG WATCH INTERNATIONAL
VIRGINIA
Mr. Coleman served thirty-two years as a Special Agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) before retiring in January 1998 as one of its top management officials. His career included progressively important permanent assignments in the United States and Europe. His domestic field service included assignments as Special Agent in Charge of three separate DEA Field Divisions and Associate Special Agent in Charge and Assistant Special Agent in Charge of two others. As Assistant Administrator for Operations, the third highest position in the DEA, Mr. Coleman supervised an annual operating budget of $816 million, and managed the activities of over 7,000 employees in 19 domestic divisions and 75 overseas offices. Mr. Coleman's career included extensive executive and policymaking experience at the uppermost levels of government service. Mr. Coleman began his career in 1965 as an entry-level undercover drug agent on the streets of New York City and went on to eventually hold several of the most important positions in the agency. From 1991 until retirement in 1998, Mr. Coleman served at the highest rank (SES-06) of the federal Senior Executive Service. From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Coleman served as the Assistant Administrator for Operations, the highest non-Presidentially appointed position in the DEA. John Coleman is President of the Board of Directors of Drug Watch International.
MINA SEINFELD DE CARAKUSHANSKY
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
President of BRAHA, Brazilian Humanitarians in Action, and General Director of Prevention of ABRAD, Brazilian Association on Alcohol and Drugs. Former Head of the Drug Prevention Bureau of the City of Rio de Janeiro and former Head of the Special Secretariat for the Prevention of Chemical Dependence of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Professor Seinfeld de Carakushansky was an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro for 25 years. She has developed numerous drug prevention programs and over the last twelve years has coordinated more than sixty short intensive drug demand reduction seminars in most of Latin American Countries identifying key people and forging leadership in the area of drug prevention. Has authored texts and articles about Drug Prevention, Drugs and Human Rights, Legalization, and Preventive Cities. Has received numerous awards having been declared by Local Councils and Mayors as Honorary Visitor of Latin American Cities; in Brazil she has received the highest Rio de Janeiro City Award given by the City Council, the Pedro Ernesto Medal. The Rio der Janeiro State Congress declared her an Honorary Citizen and gave her the Tiradentes Medal because of her intensive work in drug prevention. Both the Military Police and the Municipal Guard of Rio de Janeiro bestowed her with their highest forma recognitions for her work in Drug Prevention. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of World Federation Against Drugs and a member and Special Advisor to the International Task Force on Strategic Drug Policy. She is the only non-born Brazilian named as a life member of the Brazilian Academy of Defense.
SUSIE DUGAN
TREASURER, DRUG WATCH INTERNATIONAL
NEBRASKA
Susie Dugan is the Executive Director of PRIDE-Omaha, Inc., an organization that is recognized as a national leader in the Parent Drug Prevention Movement.? She attended Creighton University in Omaha, NE, and has 24 years experience as a drug Prevention Resource Specialist.? She helped establish and coordinate prevention organizations and coalitions at the local, state, and national levels.Ms. Dugan has conducted workshops, trainings, and seminars at national and international drug prevention conferences. She has presented over 1,650 programs to students, parents, and community leaders. Among her many awards and honors, Ms. Dugan was named the 1990 Nebraska Governor?s Drug Prevention Volunteer of the Year and received the 1993 FBI Director?s Community Service Leadership Award. Susie Dugan is the Director of the Drug Watch Communication?s Office and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of Drug Watch International.
TERRENCE P. FARLEY, ESQ.
NEW JERSEY
Terrence P. Farley graduated in 1966 from Rutgers University School of Law. He was in private law practice until 1987, when he was appointed First Assistant Ocean County (New Jersey) Prosecutor. In 1992, he became the Director of the National Drug Prosecution Center of the American Prosecutors Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. In 1994, he was appointed Director of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. In 1997, he again became the First Assistant Prosecutor and Director of the Narcotics Strike Force for Ocean County. In 2007, Mr. Farley retired from public service. Today he is a private consultant, adjunct Professor at Ocean County College, and Drug and Alcohol Consultant for Toms River School District. He has lectured on various aspects of narcotics law enforcement, drug demand reduction, gangs, and drugs. His lectures have included State Police agencies, the Armed Forces, and the National Crime Prevention Council. He is especially proud of his lectures for school children. His articles on drug legalization, under-age drinking, Designer Club and Rave Drugs, The Great Medical Marijuana Hoax, Let's Call Them Party Drugs, and Beyond Convictions in the War On Drugs, have all been published. Mr. Farley has been featured on television, including the Oprah Winfrey Club Drug Special. Among his many awards are: Ocean County Man of the Year Ocean County Chiefs of Police; NJ Attorney General’s Award of Excellence in Law Enforcement; Ocean County Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Council Citizen of the Year, and in 2003, Mr. Farley was inducted into the Ocean County Hall of Excellence for Vocational and Technical Education. Terrence P. Farley, Esq., is a member of the Board of Directors of Drug Watch International.
LIEUTENANT ED MOSES (RET.)
VICE PRESIDENT-SECRETARY, DRUG WATCH INTERNATIONAL
MISSOURI
Lt. Ed Moses has an A.S. degree in Criminal Justice.He has served with the U.S. Army Military Police in Germany, as a police officer with St. Louis, MO, and as a MO State Trooper during which time he was an undercover drug agent, and a Drug Information Officer. He retired as the Asst. Dir. of Training MSHP Academy, Administrator of the Drug Recognition Expert Program, and DARE State Administrator. Lt. Moses is an original board member of the National Federation of Parents, co-founder of Missouri Federation of Parents, and a nationally and internationally recognized presenter at drug prevention conferences. Lt. Ed Moses is Vice President-Secretary of the Board of Directors of Drug Watch International.
MARGARET L. PETITO
WASHINGTON, DC
Margaret L. Petito is the President of Friends of Rule of Law in Ecuador, Inc., a DC based organization that promotes anti-corruption reforms in Ecuador. She is Chairman of the Cultural Partnership of the Americas, and organization that supports historical research and cultural awareness between the Americas. Ms. Petito was a founding member of the DC Board of Directors for the NYUMBANI ORPHANAGE in Nairobi, Kenya, and served until 1999.Ms. Petito has held numerous government relations positions and was Program Development Officer for ACTION-VISTA Project Reach. She is past Director of External Relations for the Embassy of Ecuador in Washington, DC, and past Director of External Relations for the International Cancer Alliance, Bethesda, MD. Ms. Petito earned a BA in Social Science from Southern Methodist University where she was Co-leader of SMU Volunteer Services. She is currently in the Masters program at Georgetown University. Since 1992, Ms. Petito has been Public Policy Advisor to Drug Watch Internal and a member of the International Drug Strategy Institute, a division of Drug Watch International. Margaret L. Petito is a member of the Board of Directors of Drug Watch International.
LEADERSHIP ROLES
WAYNE ROQUES, SENIOR SPECIAL AGENT
FLORIDA
Wayne Roques is a retired (1995) Special Agent, US Drug Enforcement Administration. Mr. Roques was formerly a federal criminal investigator with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in New Orleans. He served on the New York Joint Task Force and was class coordinator for the Drug Enforcement Administration's 10 Week Police Academy in Washington, D.C. He served on the Vice President's Joint Task Force in Florida and was the Demand Reduction Coordinator for the Miami Field Division serving the Florida and Caribbean area. Mr. Roques has presented over a thousand demand reduction programs to schools, workplaces, civic groups, youth groups, treatment facilities, colleges, professional sports teams, and law enforcement agencies. He is a nationally and internationally published writer. Mr. Roques is a member of the International Drug Strategy Institute, a division of Drug Watch International. Wayne Roques is Past President of Drug Watch International, and he is a member of the Board of Directors.
Geraldine Silverman has been involved as a volunteer drug preventionist since 1978, when she founded Milburn (New Jersey) PTA Drug Awareness Committee and was Chairman from 1978 to 1986. She is a charter member of the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth and founder of the New Jersey Federation for Drug Free Communities. Ms Silverman has presented at schools, churches, and community meetings in the tri-state area. She has been a guest speaker at numerous state and federal conferences, and including the New Jersey PTA, NJ Bureau of Narcotics, Georgia State University, and the New York School of Medicine. Ms Silverman has testified numerous times before state and federal Narcotics Subcommittees and served on New Jersey Governor Kean’s Drug Advisory Council. In 1989, she was appointed by the Mayor of Millburn Township to serve as Chairman of the newly formed Millburn Municipal Alliance for Drug Awareness, a position that she still holds today. Over the years, she has appeared on numerous radio talk shows and TV specials and has been quoted in major newspapers and magazines throughout the U.S. In 1996, Ms Silverman was the recipient of New Jersey Governor Whitman's "Volunteer of the Year Award," and in 2005, she was presented with the Millburn New Jersey Township "Outstanding Community Service Award." Geraldine Silverman is a member of the Board of Directors of Drug Watch International.
Otto Moulton’s Courage Never Failed nor Faltered
Before there was Drug Watch, there was Otto Moulton. Before there were local prevention councils and state commissions on drug abuse, there was Otto Moulton. Before there was an Office of National Drug Control Policy, there was Otto Moulton. Otto was one of a handful of pioneers in the drug prevention movement who spotted the growing scourge early on and hardened himself to the cause of fighting the spread of illicit drugs. In time, Otto would become one of the world’s premier anti-drug warriors.
Otto traced his “baptism” into the drug war to an October day in 1977. A young man who was seeking donations to print an anti-drug pamphlet showed Otto a suitcase full of drug paraphernalia and a magazine glorifying the drug culture that was being hawked at a local newsstand. Otto went to the newsstand and found the magazine stacked next to Sesame Street’s publication, as if both were children’s literature. He bought the whole stack of drug magazines and destroyed them.
From that day to the end of his life in January 2003, Otto worked to stop the proliferation of drugs. Taking a leaf from the patriot Sam Adam’s playbook he and his wife, Connie, founded The Committees of Correspondence to expose the drug culture’s agenda to legalize drugs; to inform others of the effects of drugs on the brain and the body; and to create tools to properly educate children and adults.
In addition, Otto helped establish the National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth, which became a model for many drug prevention organizations. In 1987, when President and Mrs. Reagan went looking for experts to serve on the White House Conference for A Drug-Free America, the name of Otto Moulton kept coming up, and President Reagan appointed Otto to the conference. Mrs. Reagan came to depend on Otto as a consultant to her “Just Say No” campaign, and she named him to her “Nancy Reagan’s Speakers Bureau.” Congressional committees frequently sought Otto’s informed testimony in their effort to understand the nation’s growing drug problem.
Otto’s impact reached far beyond the bounds of the United States. Europeans, South Americans, Australians, and Asians – in and out of government – sought Otto’s counsel. He addressed parliaments in four continents. Today, the millions who are fighting the drug war worldwide might rightly be called “Otto’s Army.”
And make no mistake about it, these drug warriors are winning. Only a few years ago in the United States, the citizenry of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Ohio might well have voted for drug decriminalization instead of rejecting it. But thanks to Otto’s Army, a wiser electorate and lawmakers now realize that drug decriminalization amounts to drug legalization. In Europe last year, delegates from 100 cities met and signed a zero-tolerance drug pact, and in just a few short months they have gathered 1.3 million signatures urging the United Nations to maintain its strong stand against illicit drugs.
Drug prevention leaders in many countries received packages of information from Otto, dubbed “Otto-Bombs.” An Otto-Bomb consisted of box loads of books and videos, demonstrating the damage done by drugs and chronicling the strategies and whereabouts of legalizers, as they networked around the globe trying to spread the false message that drugs are harmless and ought to be available on demand. Otto collected and organized incontrovertible evidence unmasking the lies of “medical marijuana,” needle giveaways, and hemp farming, and he exposed the leaders of the drug legalization movement as the drug abusers that they are.
For Otto, it was always about children. Through the years, four boys whom he coached in Little League and Youth Hockey back in the 1970’s who became drug involved, were always on his mind. Today, one is dead; one is in jail for murder; one had a near-fatal heart attack; and one lost his chance to play pro football because he tested positive for cocaine. Otto believed that had he known then what he learned over time he might have saved all four of them. However, what we do know is that Otto and his army have saved many others for which Otto received more awards and honors than would fit on this page.
Otto was a founder of Drug Watch International and served as an Advisor, as a member of Drug Watch International’s International Drug Strategy Institute, and as a member of the board of directors until his death.
We at Drug Watch who are Otto’s grateful warriors want to say, “Thank you, Otto. We will never forget you.”
- Support clear messages and standards of no illegal use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, (including "no use" under legal age) and no abuse of legal drugs or substances for adults or youth.
- Support comprehensive and coordinated approaches that include prevention, education, law enforcement, research, and treatment in addressing issues regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
- Support strong laws and meaningful legal penalties that hold users and dealers accountable for their actions.
- Support the requirement that any medical use of psychoactive or addictive drugs meet the current criteria required of all other therapeutic drugs.
- Support adherence to the scientific research standards and ethics that are prescribed by the world scientific community and professional associations in conducting studies and reviews on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (without exception to illicit drugs).
- Support efforts to prevent availability and use of drugs, and oppose policies and programs that accept drug use based erroneously on reduction or minimization of harm.
- Support International Treaties and Agreements, including international sanctions and penalties against drug trafficking, and oppose attempts to weaken international drug policies and laws.
- Support efforts to halt the legalization/decriminalization of drugs.
- Support the freedom and rights of individuals without jeopardizing the stability, health, and welfare of society.
MISSION STATEMENT
The illegal or harmful use of psychoactive or addictive drugs is a major threat to all world communities and to future generations. Drug Watch International is a network of prevention experts and community volunteers from a wide range of professions whose mission is to help assure a healthier and safer world through drug prevention efforts by: providing accurate information on both illicit and harmful psychoactive substances; promoting sound drug policies based on scientific research; and opposing efforts to legalize or decriminalize drugs.
PHILOSOPHY
Drug abuse prevention is the most effective, humane, and cost effective way of addressing the consequences of illegal, harmful and mind altering drugs in our society. Prevention works and needs to be reinforced, enhanced, and expanded.
Effective prevention can take place only with positive societal norms which embrace and support healthy drug-free attitudes, environment, and activities, while reinforcing nonacceptance toward the presence of drugs and destructive behavior. These societal norms must be reflected in the accountability and enforcement of legal, medical, educational, community, and personal standards
All parts of the local and global communities need to unite the strengths of professional expertise, generational wisdom and individual commitment to combat the drug problem as we strive together toward a healthier world.
PRINCIPLES
- Support clear messages and standards of no illegal use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, (including "no use" under legal age) and no abuse of legal drugs or substances for adults or youth.
- Support comprehensive and coordinated approaches that include prevention, education, law enforcement, research, and treatment in addressing issues regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
- Support strong laws and meaningful legal penalties that hold users and dealers accountable for their actions.
- Support the requirement that any medical use of psychoactive or addictive drugs meet the current criteria required of all other therapeutic drugs.
- Support adherence to the scientific research standards and ethics that are prescribed by the world scientific community and professional associations in conducting studies and reviews on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (without exception to illicit drugs).
- Support efforts to prevent availability and use of drugs, and oppose policies and programs that accept drug use based erroneously on reduction or minimization of harm.
- Support International Treaties and Agreements, including international sanctions and penalties against drug trafficking, and oppose attempts to weaken international drug policies and laws.
- Support efforts to halt the legalization/decriminalization of drugs.
- Support the freedom and rights of individuals without jeopardizing the stability, health, and welfare of society.
- Articles (International)
- Articles (USA)
- Editorials
- Position Statements and Resolutions
- Press Releases
- Testimonies and Speeches
- Truth and Lies
- Drug Watch World News
- Anti-Drug Organizations
- Drug Culture
- Drug Tragedies
- Drug Use in the United States
- Ecstasy
- Glossary of Terms
- Harm Reduction
- Hemp & Cannabis Hemp THC in Food-Cosmetic Supply & Industrial Marijuana Hemp
- Legalization: Speaking Out Against (Resource from DEA for Parents & Teachers)
- Crime, Violence & Drug Use Go Hand-in-Hand http://www.dea.gov/demand/speakout/07so.htm
- Legislative Action
- Mandatory Minimum Sentences
- Marijuana Facts for Teens
- Marijuana Research Reviews
- Medical Myths of Marijuana: Say It Straight (Resource from DEA includes Talking Points For Challenging the Medical Use of Marijuana Argument) http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/sayit/myths.htm
- Research Reports
- Statistics
- Street Terms: Drugs and Drug Trade (from Office of National Drug Control Policy)
COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
Permission is given to reproduce articles in these publications, provided credit for the source is given. You must list the original source, as well as this newsletter. This excludes all artwork, for which written permission is required.
