Under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Assistant Professor Dr. Sarmad Hashim Al-Khatib, the Continuing Education Unit, in cooperation with the Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit, held an educational event under the slogan (Drugs are destruction and destruction of minds and homelands), which included awareness workshops, display of posters, and educational activities for students. The first workshop was entitled (Drugs addiction: causes, problems, and solutions), which was submitted by the lecturer, Dr. Lubna Abdalkarim Sabri, a lecturer in the department of pharmaceutics, and the second workshop submitted by lecturer. Shaimaa Luay Abdulhadi, lecturer in the department of pharmaceutical chemistry, under the title (How to deal with an addicted person). The workshops aimed to raise awareness, educate and disseminate scientific information in the field of prevention of youth from the drug addiction. The first workshop dealt with the most common types of drugs as well as focused on the stages and causes of drug abuse and the mental, social, economic and security effects of addiction on the individual and society. Generally, wherever there is drugs addiction, there is crime, moral and social decay, and transitional diseases and violence abound. Therefore, the responsibility of society and governmental institutions is cooperation in order to deal with the risk factors that encourage drugs abuse and addiction, and focus on prevention and spread awareness to protect our youth from mental deterioration and loss. The workshop also dealt with the legal framework for drugs control. On the other hand, the second workshop focused on the mistakes that families make in dealing with their addicted son, including ignoring or threatening him and making him feel guilty instead of supporting and encouraging treatment. It also dealt with the addict’s feelings during the treatment journey, including his feelings of despair, frustration, shame, inability to express feelings, and surrendering to the feelings of death. It also dealt in detail with the steps of addiction treatment and how to deal with a person after healing. The event also included the display of posters, flyers, posters and artwork for students under the supervision of a group of college professors, which dealt with the warning against the use of psychological and mental stimulants without a prescription, as well as reviewed the physical and mental damage of drugs on the individual as well as their damage to society such as the spread of crime, the weakness of the economy, etc., and how the family and society cooperate To prevent the scourge of drugs, the event also dealt with an art exhibition opened by the Dean, in which the paintings drawn by our students were displayed, in addition to some beautiful handicrafts. The Dean expressed his admiration for the students’ ideas and the diversity of ways to raise awareness of the danger of abuse and addiction. Some of them were through printing warning signs and pictures on cups and notebooks, and a stereoscopic work showing how drugs put the addict in a cage of illusions and isolate him from practicing his life, in addition to paintings that showed that drugs are a fleeting beginning to a doomed end.
