The Continuing Education Unit at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Baghdad held a workshop entitled The Scourge of Drugs and its Effects on the Individual and Society (Between Science and Law) under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Assistant Professor Dr. Sarmad Hashem Al-Khatib, which was delivered by the teacher Dr. Jinan Abdul Razzaq Fattah, a teacher in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences Branch and Assistant Lecturer Heba Haider Kazim, coinciding with the Iraqi Anti-Drug Week.
The workshop aimed to introduce that the harms of drugs are not limited to their negative impact on the health of the individual and his small surroundings of his family and friends, but also affect the whole society in various economic and social aspects.
The lecture included several axes, including a statement of the concept of drugs, their types, the causes of addiction, means of prevention, their economic, health, and social effects, and the position of the Iraqi legislator on the crime of illegal drug trafficking and the crime of drug abuse and psychotropic substances.
The workshop concluded that drug abuse could lead to accidents, injuries, and possibly death as a result of driving under the influence of drugs, theft, infringement on the property of others, violence, and violation of the rights of others, and may even lead to murder, increased unemployment, and homelessness, which increases the burdens on society and the state and the spread of corruption in society due to drug trafficking.
