The University of Basra organizes a symposium on drugs and their impact on the individual and society

The College of Education for Women at the University of Basra, in coordination with the University’s Follow-up Department and the Directorate of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances in Basra, organized a symposium entitled (Drugs and their Impact on the Individual and Society).

The aim of the symposium is to introduce society and young people to the dangers and harms of drugs and to find ways to combat them.

The symposium presented by Dr. Rafif Abdel-Hafiz Al-Riahi, a lecturer in the Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences, and Mr. Muhannad Hassan Asoud, Director of the Relations and Media Division in the Directorate of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances in Basra, included several topics, including a definition of drugs and their types, methods of abuse and the reasons that lead to abuse, and the position of religious legislation on them. And ways to reduce its spread and combat it.

The symposium recommended the need for educational and academic institutions to contribute to educating students about the dangers of drugs and their spread, in addition to the contribution of youth and sports centres, civil society institutions, clergy and tribal sheikhs to awareness and guidance.

The symposium added to tightening the supervision of the competent state agencies over cafes and clubs to ensure that they are free and that their customers do not use drugs, amending the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Law No. 50 of 2017 by tightening the penalties contained therein and imposing the death penalty in Article 28.