Drug and tobacco addiction in Educational Institutions of Pakistan

 How the project" Drug and tobacco addiction in Educational Institutions of Pakistan started"?

The project drug and tobacco addiction in educational institutions of Pakistan begin after brain storming because our youth especially students in colleges and universities are suffering from this malaise. Our team member took initiative to find root cause of getting addicted to drugs and raise awareness among students so that their future would be safe .so here start our project.

Initially we conducted webinars with psychiatrist and psychologist to get data and information regarding drug addiction. Why students use drugs, what are the harmful effects of drugs and what are the steps so that one get out of drug addiction.

Our team member had a meeting with ministry of anti-narcotics to get more data about increasing rate of drugs and to how much extent they had be successful in controlling this malaise across country. We had another meeting with NUML administration to review their policies about drug usage in NUML . After that we did an online survey to find ratio of drug usage among youth.

Our team members in coordination with supervisor Dr Athar Rashid and other students conducted an awareness walk in our university to raise awareness, we pasted posters in different places in university. We also have social media pages on drug addiction. Project member conducted a walk in ICMA to give awareness.

With the start of New Year we recorded messages on say to no drugs from different students to raise our voice, our own team member shared their views on drug and tobacco addiction. After this we distributed poster which includes steps how to avoid this addiction. We took interviews of NUML students and general youth that what are their views about drug, when they started using drug and why? Furthermore we give Awareness about harmful effects of drug and tobaccos usage to NUML transport members.

The main aim our project starts from here where our aim was to engage youth in healthy activates like sports. We did different matches like as two cricket matches with students and sport administration respectively. A table tennis match with students of ICMA was conducted. Then we had a volleyball match, football match. All these healthy activities had a great impact on our body. The body and mind remains active all time and can perform daily task without any stress.

Activities:

1:Meeting with Ms.Lala Rukh

Our team members an interactive session with officer of anti-narcotics. Where we discuss about the dugs polices of educational institutions among four provinces. They were working in collaboration with VC and administration of universities. Plus different seminar are conducted to involve youth. Although it was discussed that with limited number of anti-narcotics forces it is a bit challenging to completely eradicate. Plus with increasing poverty, unemployment, corruption most of the people are involved in drug smuggling and many other issues.