The education and student sector concluded a series of awareness seminars that were organized at Ain Shams University through the General Administration of Youth Welfare, in cooperation with the Council of Ministers’ Addiction Control and Treatment Fund, with a symposium held at the Faculty of Arts entitled “Addiction... Risks and Solutions,” under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zein El-Abedeen, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Hanan Kamel, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed Ibrahim, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Education and Student Affairs, 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, headed by the Council of Ministers and in the presence of a group of faculty staff and students at the faculty.

The symposium began with a speech of Prof. Mohamed Ibrahim, about the importance of confronting the dangers of drugs due to their negative impact on young people, praising the university’s efforts in cooperation with the Addiction Control and Treatment Fund in creating awareness of the dangers of drugs.

Dr. Rasha Mohamed Rashad confirmed 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 primary prevention methods, how to detect early, 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 about 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 mobile social treatment and rehabilitation through the hotline 16023, methods of early detection, and how to prevent this phenomenon.

On the sidelines of the symposium, the film 4×6, produced by the Addiction Control and Treatment Fund, was shown and discussed with the students, praising the role of Ain Shams University and all the university’s colleges, as well as the role of the Youth Welfare Administration, the Ain Shams University Student Union, and all their employees in facilitating the coordination of awareness campaigns for students within the framework of cooperation. Between the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction and Abuse and Ain Shams University.

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.

For his part, Dr. Badr Abdel Aziz Badr, 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 axis of the legal dimensions of the law to combat drug trafficking and drug trafficking, the most important features that distinguish this law from its predecessor, and the widening of the scope 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.

It is noteworthy that the series of awareness seminars held by the education sector and students toured a large number of faculties with the aim of raising students’ awareness of the disaster of addiction and the resulting destruction of societies and destruction of youth.