‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’ you must have heard this phrase a thousand times earlier. But have you ever really tried to evaluate whether it is actually of any worth or not. Well the truth is that pictures do have a greater impact on people than anything else. This exactly is the reason why poster have been so popular with people of every age.

They have been used as an effective means of spreading awareness amongst people. Government bodies, health centres, schools and other institutional bodies are some of the places where these posters are widely utilized. One of the most popular topic of poster awareness is Drugs. Anti- drug posters are used widely across the globe to spread awareness and to prevent the abuse caused by them to the society.

Drug posters are mainly targeted towards the youth, as they are the ones who are more prone towards such abuses. These posters generally have a theme on which they are created. Drug abuse generally has an extremely harmful effect on the society as well as on the individual, hence, these themes could either be based on social aspects of life or on the fear of death.

Drug posters generally have quite a gory feel, as they are meant to develop fear amongst the addicts to stop its usage. These posters are generally adopted by health centers, environmentalists, social activists, educational institutions etc. Now a days, there are a number of websites, that help you buy or download such anti- drug posters and spread a word of awareness around.

Many websites have also began promotion of such awareness posters by organizing competitions, where topics like drug awareness or anti- drugs are quite popular. The winning posters are then sold at great price online, out of which, a part is contributed to welfare associations too.