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I was fortunate to be part of a four-person CADCA team that traveled to Vienna, Austria, last week to attend the annual meeting of the United Nations (UN) Commission on Narcotics Drugs (CND), the principal policy-making body within the UN system on drug control issues. Despite cold weather, the CADCA team received a warm welcome from many of the ambassadors and delegates of the approximately 100 nations represented at the meeting, including Mexico, Guatemala, South Africa, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, where CADCA already is working with local groups.

Catch phrases are a way of life for advertisers. In the 80s, it was "Where's the Beef?" A decade later, a clever agency joined forces with dozens of celebrities to ask "Got Milk?" In the 2000s, we get statements, not questions. What's being heard most often these days? "There's an app for that."

In this blog post, we look at ways that community anti-drug coalitions can utilize mobile technology to participate in Connected Communities, a peer-to-peer social network.