The Faculty of Archeology hosted the awareness symposium organized by the education and students sector at the university through the General Administration of Youth Welfare, in cooperation with the Council of Ministers’ Addiction Control and Treatment Fund, entitled “Addiction...Risks and Harms”, under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El-Abedeen, the President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Hossam Tantawy, Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology, in the presence of Dr. Rasha Mohamed Rashad, researcher at the Fund for Combating Addiction and Abuse Treatment at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, and 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, 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, in addition to the role of the various media in combating drug abuse through the awareness spaces it dedicates to the dangers of this phenomenon and its consequences on the individual and society.

She 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. She praised the role of Ain Shams University in 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 spoke 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. Neven Al-Kabbaj, the Minister of Solidarity, the Fund Director, Dr. Amr Othman, and the Assistant Minister of Solidarity for students within awareness campaigns and seminars for students within Egyptian universities.

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’s disease, 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 laboratories. Illegally 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.

This symposium comes as a continuation of a series of seminars held by the education sector and students in various university colleges within the framework of Ain Shams University’s vision of raising student awareness of young people and preventing the dangers to which they may be exposed.