On August 25, an educational event was organized in prisons № 1 and 7 of the Penitentiary Service on the harm of drug addiction to society and human health in order to strengthen propaganda work among prisoners within the framework of the implementation of the approved Action Plan between the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice and the Permanent Working Group of the State Commission for Combating Drug Addiction and Illegal Trafficking in Narcotics.

   Representatives of the Permanent Working Group of the State Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and Illegal Trafficking, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population, the General Anti-Narcotics Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Committee on Family, Women and Children"s Problems and the Republican Narcology Center of the Ministry of Health participated at the event.

   In the meeting, recommendations were given on the prevention of drug-related criminal incidents as well as  the destructive effect of drugs on the human body, the social problems it causes and the role of the state in organizing the fight in this direction, the rehabilitation and reintegration of drug-affected convicts into society and at the same time detailed information was given on the ways of spread of AIDS and several infectious diseases.

   At the end, extensive discussions were held on the questions and the necessary propaganda materials prepared by the Working Group of the State Commission were distributed among the participants.