Within the framework of raising awareness and spreading health, cultural, and social awareness at Ain Shams University, the Education and Student Affairs Sector, in cooperation with the Community Service, Environmental Development, and Youth Care Sector at the Faculty of Al-Alsun, organized awareness symposium on “Addiction...Dangers and Harms,” under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El-Abedeen, President of the University, Prof. Ghada Farouk, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, and under the supervision of Prof. Nasser Abdel-Al, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Youmna Safwat, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, and in the presence of Dr. Rasha, a researcher at the Fund for Combating Addiction and Abuse Treatment headed by the Council of Ministers, Dr. Ahmed Abdel Shafi, Toxicology Officer at the Forensic Medicine Department, and a group of students from the Faculty of Al-Alsun.

Dr. Rasha explained the importance of the family because it is the first line of defense to protect its children from drugs, through understanding the nature of the problem, understanding the methods of primary prevention and early detection, and knowing the nature of its role in treatment and rehabilitation in the event that one of its members falls into drug addiction.

She pointed out that the basis of prevention stems from continuous communication and dialogue between children and parents, listening to them carefully and encouraging them to express and express their opinion, encouraging children to practice hobbies and artistic, sports and cultural activities, and urging them to participate in community and volunteer work that contribute to their self-realization and their sense of their value in society.

Dr. Ahmed Abdel Shafi explained the types of synthetic drugs, including pharmaceutical drugs that enter the body through incorrect use by the individual, such as treating parkinson paralysis, antidepressants, nerve treatments, and tranquilizers. However, with the large number of these drugs, they can be addicted, and some of them are synthetic materials that have no medical use and are manufactured in illegally laboratories used as a narcotic substance, such as methamphetamine, and synthetic and hallucinogenic techniques.

He pointed out the harmful effects of these drugs on the body, nervous and digestive systems, the appearance of infections, stomach ulcers, kidney failure, constant violence, excessive nervousness, reckless behavior, and the commission of crimes, in addition to atrophy in the brain, high blood pressure, circulatory disturbance, the desire for isolation, loneliness, and constant insomnia.