The Center for Development and Continuing Education at the University of Basra organized a drug prevention workshop, an investment of energies, money and time
The aim of the workshop is to show the danger of drugs to the individual and society, as they are toxins that flow in the blood of the abuser, destroying the body of the community and causing exhaustion, which requires concerted efforts to limit its consumption and prevent it, as it is better than treatment.
The workshop, which was presented by Dr. Amer Abdul-Nabi Al-Abadi and Dr. Abdul-Karim Zayer Al-Mouzani, included the definition of drugs and psychotropic substances, the concept of addiction, and the characteristics of the addict.
And the factors causing addiction: social, religious, economic and family, as well as personal factors and the physical, psychological, economic, social and security health effects resulting from addiction and how to take preventive measures to reduce addiction starting from the role of the family, school and university, and religious, social, legal, media and security institutions.
In the end, the recommendation was that the family should play its humane educational role, in raising children together, helping them to form normal, normal personalities that resist behavioral deviations, and for schools and universities to educate students about the dangers of drugs and their repercussions on physical, psychological, mental and societal health, as they are closely related to the crimes of kidnapping, murder, theft, and domestic violence. The active role of the clergy, the media, civil society institutions, lawmen, security and correctional centers, in guiding young people to follow the correct methods in dealing with life pressures, and avoid escaping from these pressures by resorting to deviant methods to get rid of them and motivating psychological counseling centers and units in universities, and counselors Educators in schools, to produce counseling programs for the prevention of drugs, to issue pamphlets and brochures that show the dangers of drugs, and the importance of resorting to psychological counseling to solve problems, staying away from bad friends and increasing the number of psychiatric clinics in Iraq, as their number is not commensurate with the number of teams applying voluntarily to treatment of addiction, or referred to it by the judicial and correctional institutions, and The private sector can contribute in this area by establishing clinics to be donated by the well-to-do and investors, to have a serious contribution to protecting Iraqi society from the scourge of dangerous drugs.
