The Education and Student Sector - General Administration for Youth Welfare Office at Ain Shams University, the Faculty of Al-Alsun ​​Students Union, and the Faculty's Community Service and Environmental Development Sector, in cooperation with the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction and Drug Abuse, chaired by the Cabinet, organized a symposium entitled "The Dangers of Addiction and Narcotic Substances."

Under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El-Abedeen, President of the University, Prof. Ghada Farouk, Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, with the kind hosting of Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty, and the supervision of Prof. Hala Sayed Metwally, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Yomna Safwat, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Dr. Rasha Mohamed Rashad, Researcher at the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction and Drug Abuse, headed by the Council of Ministers, and Dr. Badr Abdel Aziz Badr, Director General of Legal Affairs at the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction and Drug Abuse, headed by the Council of Ministers, gave lectures.

In her opening remarks, Prof. Yomna Safwat, Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development, emphasized the imperative of directly confronting drug abuse, as it represents the greatest threat facing youth in university education. Drug abuse is often a result of experimentation with friends, often sparking the path to addiction. She emphasized that the prescriptions exchanged between university students to stay up late for their studies can be the gateway to immersion in the sea of ​​addiction. Based on Ain Shams University's commitment to its wealth of youth, who possess diverse knowledge and skills to prepare them for the job market, the university administration is working to spread a culture of confronting addiction and abuse among its students, providing them with information from specialists to educate students and ensure their future.

In her speech, Dr. Rasha explained the role of the Addiction Control and Treatment Fund in raising awareness among youth. She explained that the Addiction Control and Care Fund has a different role than the Drug Control Fund, which is concerned with seizing the largest quantities of drugs, which is a difficult and huge task, as the most powerful agency in the world can confiscate a percentage that may reach only 9% of the volume of drugs entering any country. She pointed out that the Fund has facilitated the process of rapid treatment for citizens by reporting any case of addiction through the hotline for treatment and social rehabilitation, number 16023, for advisory and therapeutic services. She also emphasized the importance of the social dimensions of the phenomenon and its impact on the individual, family and society, methods of prevention, and misconceptions about drug use and addiction.

In his speech, Dr. Badr Abdel Aziz explained the legal dimensions of Egypt's anti-drug law and related crimes, emphasizing that Egyptian law is the strongest in the Middle East, despite the harsher penalties. He pointed to legal provisions that criminalize anyone found in a place where drugs are available for use, punishable by three years in prison and a fine of up to 50,000 Egyptian pounds.

He also addressed the crime of anyone who prepares a place for drug use, punishable by up to six years in prison and a fine of no less than EGP 100,000, as well as the crime of accidental possession. He explained that the law protects addicts as patients, as addicts can apply to any center or the Ministry of Health for addiction treatment without any accountability for their addiction. The court may also place the addict in a treatment facility instead of imprisonment.

At the conclusion of the symposium, the film "4x6," produced by the Fund, was screened, illustrating the problems of falling into addiction and its danger to youth.