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Our Vision

All Aussie teenagers, parents, teachers and opinion shapers alerted to the chilling fact that drug use changes the brain.

Our Mission

To work with community, school, and church in providing relevant up to date education, prevention, support to those in need including young people, teenagers and children.

At the heart of our work is the genius of Twenty First Century science that has discovered more about the brain in the last twenty years than in all recorded history. From this research has come the knowledge that drug use changes the brain.

That the adolescent brain is a work in progress that keeps growing until the person is aged 25 or 26. As has been proven around the world teenage drug use is brain robbery.    

Our priorities

To promote delaying drug and alcohol, use until a young person is at least 21. To challenge the moves to decriminalise illicit drug use in Australian society. To reinforce the reality that most teens do not use illicit drugs. To highlight the 24,000 deaths each year caused by cigarettes (18,000 deaths), alcohol (4,000 deaths), illicit and prescription drugs (2,000 deaths)

Our Principles

We believe that science proves that harm prevention is the best goal.

Our Aspirations

  1. Removal of all soft laws on marijuana growing and possession of cannabis.
  2. All shops banned from selling bongs and other smoking equipment.
  3. Safer roads through moving the legal blood alcohol limit to .02 as in Sweden
  4. Harm prevention as the main goal of drug policy
  5. Abstinence as the main goal of drug treatment policy
  6. The legal drinking age in Australia  moved to 21, as in the USA and Russia etc.
  7. Prosecution of licensees who sell alcohol to minors.
  8. To see a clearly defined standard of intoxication implemented in all states and territories.
  9. Removal of alcohol sponsorship from sporting events.
  10. To see recognition of the growing links between substance abuse and mental health problems.

Our History

The Coalition On Alcohol & Drug Education (COADE Inc) started in 1881 as the Victorian Alliance concerned about the widespread abuse of alcohol in the colony. The latest name is its fourth name and reflects the fact that not only alcohol but also tobacco and illicit drugs are the big killers and wasters of young and adult lives .COADE has strong links with many churches and societies, while believing that we should serve people of all races and religious backgrounds. 125 years later we are active in promoting harm prevention at all levels of Victorian and Australian life.

Our Leadership

COADE functions with a representative executive committee and a governing council elected by our membership.

As a coalition of individuals and organisations. COADE  is a not for profit Christian based organisation committed to serving all in the community.

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