District Youth Officer in collaboration with District Administration Dir lower under the ‘Khushal Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Program’ organized an awareness seminar on ‘Drug Abuse Prevention among youth’ on Friday here.
The main objective was to educate students about the harmful effects of drug addiction on health as well as their personal and professional life.
Guest speaker, Miss Ismat Shah (Clinical Psycholo-gist at Abeer Saeed Memorial Hospital Chakdara) addressing the event warned the students that the menace of drug addiction was destroying our youth and affecting the overall society.
She highlighted the gloomy reality of the rising trend of drug addiction among college and university students. “Drug addiction is increasing among Pakistani female populations as well,” she further added.
“We need to engage our youth in healthy co-curricular and sports activities to prevent them from indulging into drug addiction,” she said.“If any of their family member is drug addict, he or she must be treated in the drug rehabilitation centers,” she stressed.
Farrukh Naz (Principal Govt Degree College Aden-zai), invited as Chief Guest said, “Parents shall build strong and friendly bonding with their children to help them in their stressful situations, which is one of the common reasons for drug use initiation.”
