Sports, Youth, and Drugs

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Sports, Youth, and Drugs
The Ministry of Youth and Sports is the most recently established ministry in Hungary, which has been operating since 1 January 1999. The civic coalition, which came to power in the summer of 1998, was the first to raise the issue of sports, as well as youth policy and drug prevention strategy for both the healthy and the disabled to a high administrative level. The ministry is headed by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr. Tamás Deutsch.
Several important issues encouraged the establishment of this Ministry. First of all, there were increasing signs of crisis in the field of Hungarian sports. Economic difficulties affected the area, which had an adverse impact on the health of the Hungarian population. Moreover, the number of young Hungarians fit enough to do their military service has recently dropped, and people spend more and more money on medicines and hospital treatment. In order to reverse these trends, the civic coalition developed a program based on prevention and the education of people from a young age onwards.
Sporting offers an alternative to harmful habits and drug addiction. In its fight against drugs, the civic coalition adopted all of its measures according to the severity of the problem. Hungary has become the target of drug smuggling in the past few years, and the number of youth unable to live normal lives because of their drug-addiction has been on the rise. Faced with these problems, the government could no longer remain idle. A deputy state secretariat was set up to co-ordinate the country’s anti-drug forces and harmonize the anti-drug resources of the different levels of public administration. The Ministry is elaborating a National Anti-Drug Strategy, which attaches great importance to prevention. Moreover, one of the first measures taken by the government tightened legal sanctions on drug abuse.
Youth policy failed to receive any major attention over the decade following the change of the Hungarian political system. Children, juveniles and young adults paid the highest price so far for advances in human rights. The civic coalition government intends to change this attitude towards youth, and considers offering young people the opportunity to exercise their basic rights of key importance.
A new initiative was also taken by the civic coalition to help the disabled integrate into society. Sport is more than a simple pastime for the disabled. Often it is the only means for them to lead an active life and find their place in society. The present government created a deputy state secretariat to support the sports activities of the disabled for the first time in the history of the Hungarian democracy. We consider the fact that some of the specialists dealing with this issue are disabled especially important.
A major move has recently been made in all of the Ministry’s fields of activity. The Ministry of Youth and Sports initiated a comprehensive reform in Hungarian sports, whose positive results have already been noted as Hungarian athletes manage to achieve increasingly better results. According to this reform plan, the Ministry also intends to involve the business sphere in the sponsorship of sport activities, since professional sports will need to find resources on the market and will have to be based on business. The Ministry of Youth and Sports has spent significant funding on the financing of sports for the young and the disabled, as well as on leisure-time sport. This year, a sum of approximately HUF one billion will be available in the field of drug prevention and the sponsorship of youth and sport organizations beyond the borders of Hungary, in accordance with the goals of the government.

 

 

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