In continuation of the awareness campaigns organized by the education sector and students through the General Administration of Youth Welfare, the College of Agriculture, and the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ain Shams University, in cooperation with the Council of Ministers’ Addiction Control and Treatment Fund, hosted an awareness seminar entitled “Addiction... Risks and Harms.”

This comes under the auspices of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zein El-Abedeen, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Thanaa Al-Noubi, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Prof. Ahmed Ahmed Refaat Khafaji, General Supervisor of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr. Rasha Mohamed Rashad, researcher at the Fund for Combating Addiction and Abuse Treatment at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Dr. Badr Abdul Aziz Badr, Director General of Legal Affairs at the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, in the presence of a group of faculty members and students at the faculty.

Dr. Rasha Mohamed Rashad explained the role of the family because it is the first line of defense to protect its children from drugs, by 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, in addition to the role of the various media in combating drug abuse through the awareness spaces it devotes to the dangers of this phenomenon and its consequences on the individual and society.

It also highlighted the role of the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction and Abuse and its departments, its role in treatment and mobile social rehabilitation through the hotline 16023, methods of early detection and how to prevent this phenomenon. On the sidelines of the symposium, the 4×6 film produced by the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction was shown and discussed with the students, praising the role of the University. Ain Shams is conducting awareness campaigns for students within the framework of cooperation between the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction and Abuse and the university.

She also talked about the role of the Youth Welfare Department and the Ain Shams University Student Union, in addition to the support of the Fund’s President, Dr. Neveen Al-Kabbaj, Minister of Solidarity, and Fund Director Dr. Amr Othman and Assistant Minister of Student Solidarity, within awareness campaigns and seminars for students within Egyptian universities.

She also indicated 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.

While Dr. Badr Abdel Aziz, Director General of Legal Affairs at the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, praised the role and interest of the Fund in legislation related to the drug issue, and addressed the focus of the legal dimensions of the law on combating and trafficking in drugs and the most important features that distinguish this law from previous ones, and the widening circle of its criminalization of crimes of being present in a place. Abuse and creating a place for drug abuse and pure possession, as well as the therapeutic system established by law, whether by applying on his own initiative for treatment or by placing him in a therapeutic facility instead of a penal facility.