The College of Political Science, in collaboration with the Ibn Sina Unit for Integrated Education and the Continuing Education Unit, held a workshop titled “The Reality of Drugs in Iraq,” under the patronage of the Dean of the College, Assistant Professor Adel Al-Badawi.
The Director of the Research and Studies Center at the General Directorate for Drug and Psychotropic Substances Affairs in the Ministry of Interior, Colonel Engineer Ziad Khalef Kati, pointed out that the workshop comes at a time when Iraq is suffering from this deadly scourge. He emphasized that drugs are not less dangerous than terrorism or any other threat to Iraq’s security and stability. Drugs have various effects, from breaking up family bonds to weakening users and addicts in performing their duties, and to the spread of organized and unorganized crime, in addition to the waste of money spent by the state and civil society organizations to treat addicts.
On his part, Dr. Iyad Malik Abdul-Majeed, the head of the Ibn Sina Unit for Integrated Education, highlighted the role of academic institutions, especially universities, in combating this dangerous phenomenon, as it is not limited to a specific institution, but requires the concerted efforts of all state institutions to address it.
