31/3/2024
The Community Service and Environmental Development Sector organizes an awareness symposium on the dangers of addiction and abuse entitled “Methods of Combating and Treating Addiction” at the Faculty of Pharmacy, within the framework of the awareness role played by the university in cooperation with Drug Control Fund in Kafrelsheikh, under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Abdelrazek Desouky, President of the University, and Dr. Amany Shaker, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, and the follow-up and implementation of Mr Nafie Hamada, General Director of Environmental Projects, and Mohamed Salah, Director of the Environmental Projects Follow-up and Implementation Department, and Dr. Salam Al-Araby, Supervisor of the Drug Control Fund in Kafrelsheikh, lectures in the symposium.
The president points out the university’s keenness to implement educational and awareness programs to disseminate the culture of awareness of the harms and dangers of narcotic substances of all kinds, and to correct misconceptions within the framework of community participation, in addition to the legal penalties stipulated by Egyptian law in cases of drug possession, drug trafficking, or abuse, appreciating the state’s efforts to combat addiction and abuse within the framework of its constant keenness to build the Egyptian human being, which is an essential element of the establishment of the new republic, the foundations of which were laid by the President Abd El-Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic.
Dr. Amany Shaker, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development, points out that the drug phenomenon has become one of the most serious social challenges facing the world today. Drug abuse and addiction have become a global social phenomenon that indicates the need for more studies and research on the phenomenon and methods of confrontation with the aim of preserving the system of moral values in society.
The symposium addresses many points about the drug problem, including the danger of drugs to societies, methods of early detection and how to deal with an addicted patient, protective factors from drugs and risk factors, and the role of friendship between young people in the dissemination or reduction of drugs as well as clarifying and correcting misconceptions about drugs. At the end of the symposium, an open dialogue takes place about the drug problem with young people, and all inquiries are answered.
