The Remote Sensing Unit, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit at the College of Science, University of Baghdad, organized a workshop entitled (Distribution of the phenomenon of drug abuse among juveniles in Baghdad Governorate: a spatial analytical study using geographic information systems) in the presence of a number of teaching students and those concerned with educational guidance committees and remote sensitization.
The workshop aimed to discover the hotspots of intensive criminal activities of drug users, especially the segment of juvenile minors of all kinds in the world, their knowledge, type of work environment, causes, and motives, and compare them with the severity of organized criminal operations in the hotspot areas, using the identification of these criminal activities and their fixation by reading the coordinates and their transfers with a GPS device and using spatial analysis techniques for events.
The workshop included a discussion of a number of topics on the environmental, health, and social effects of drug users, a spatial study of drugs using remote sensitization, analysis of statistical data on the phenomenon of drug abuse among juveniles in Baghdad Governorate, ways to prevent them, government policies, legal measures to combat drugs, and the most important data that and the causes of drug abuse and addiction, which results in a variety of important and influential societal factors that differ negatively and harmful from one society to another and from one person to another.