After controlling individual cases of psychotropic substances, the Ministry of Education stressed the need to track down the scourge of drugs in middle and secondary schools by activating confidential consultations, and a set of preventive and therapeutic projects and programmes, the most important of which is “implementing a program to develop awareness of the dangers of drugs in schools” and “a program on the role of social work” in developing awareness of the dangers of narcotics and psychotropic substances, misusing medications, and using prohibited stimulants, and “combating the scourge of smoking among male and female students.”
In its plan, the Ministry stressed the need for monitoring, discovery and observation through social service offices in schools in coordination with the educational authority, activating the role of the awareness group on the dangers of drugs and smoking in middle and high schools, organizing interactive workshops and spreading the media awareness aspect in schools, reports Al-Rai daily.
The plan called for the follow-up and supervision of the technical guidance of the social service with intensive visits to schools programmed to measure the effort and its safety, and the extent to which it achieved the goal, while activating the counseling and therapeutic side through the psychological clinic and the department of follow-up of individual cases specialized in the Department of Social and Psychological Services, in coordination and cooperation with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Interior, and completing the study The field study on the role of social and psychological service in developing awareness of the dangers of drugs and psychotropic substances and methods of prevention.