An enlightenment even was held  on February 12 this year at the Prison №17 in accordance to the “Action Plan”, approved by the regularly operating Working Group of the State Commission jointly with the Ministry of Justice Penitentiary Service in order to  prevent the illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors and enhancement of awareness-raising activities and anti-drug propaganda among penitentiary prisoners.

   Deputy Head of the Working Group of the State Commission and Head of the Sector, Officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the employees of Department for  Educational Work at the Ministry of Justice's Penitentiary Service and Head Department of Medicine, doctor-narcologist at the Republican Narcology Center of the Ministry of Health and the representative of the Minister of Labor and Social Protection made speeches around the topic and  provided detailed information on the prevention of drug-related crime cases, as well as on the harmful effects of drugs on  the human body, at the same time gave wide information about the  ways of spreading of AIDS and some other dangerous diseases.

   In the end, educational materials, booklets and leaflets issued by the  Working Group of the State Commission were distributed among the prisoners.