An educational event was organized on October 31 at Baku Vocational High School No. 18 in cooperation with the Garadagh District Executive in accordance with the Action Plan signed between the Permanent Working Group of the State Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and Illegal Trafficking of Narcotics and the Youth Foundation of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

  At the event, the first deputy head of Garadagh District, deputy district prosecutor, deputy head of the police department, deputy head of the Permanent Working Group of the State Commission, deputy head of the department of the General Anti-Narcotics Department, the responsible employee of the Youth Fund and the medical narcologist of the Baku Narcology Center made a speech, the participants were given extensive information about the risk factors of drug use, the characteristics of psychoactive substances and their harmful effects on health, the stages of the formation of drug addiction, the importance of anti-drug propaganda, methods of combating drug addiction, and the direction of the "802" hotline in order to increase their knowledge about the problem of drug addiction and a wide discussion was held around the questions that interested the participants.

  At the end, methodical recommendations booklet and necessary propaganda materials on "To help identify persons who abuse narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances" prepared by the Permanent Working Group of the State Commission were presented to the participants.