The College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Basrah organized a symposium on (How to reduce the spread of drug phenomenon).
The symposium aimed to reduce the large spread of the phenomenon of drugs in our society.
The symposium, in which the specialist in the issue of narcotics and psychotropic substances, Lt. Col. Fouad Muhsir Jassem, lectured, included an introduction to the types of drugs and their forms that can be circulated and the extent of their danger, and the presenter explained the extent of the damage caused by these drugs in terms of health, psychological, social and economic terms, targeting different age groups, especially university students.
The symposium recommended emphasizing the role of awareness, which starts with the family and society, in controlling and eliminating the phenomenon of addiction, in addition to ways to prevent it.