The College of Medicine at the University of Baghdad organized an awareness seminar on the dangers of drugs and the reasons for their spread among graduate students in the various formations of the university specifically. This comes within the framework of the implementation of the University of Baghdad program to develop scientific research skills for graduate students at ASDPS.
The seminar was presented by Prof. Dr. Ghassan Thabet Saeed, a lecturer at the college, with the aim of raising student awareness of the health, societal, and economic effects of the use of various narcotic substances and steroids, which comes within the framework of a wide campaign launched by the University of Baghdad.
The topics included a review of the difference between narcotic and stimulant substances and their impact on organ functions, with an indication of the need not to use prescription drugs, and the symposium also touched on the procedures followed by the Iraqi ministries of state concerned with the subject, especially the Ministry of Health, which began to include a number of medical drugs on the list of addictive narcotic substances.
At the end of the session, the students’ questions were answered in knowing the most prominent signs of indicators on the abusing person and how to reach the specialized centers in an attempt to recover and return to engage in university and social life.
This symposium achieves one of the sustainable development goals represented by the third goal, which calls for ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages.