An educational event on the fight against drug addiction was organized on December 28 of this year in the penal institution № 6 within the framework of the implementation of the Action Plan jointly signed between the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice and the Permanent Working Group of the State Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and Illegal Trafficking in Narcotics.

 The deputy head of the State Commission"s Working Group, an employee of the Main Anti-Narcotics Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, an expert-physician of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population, a doctor-psychologist of the Republic Drug Center of the Ministry of Health participated at the event.

 At the meeting, detailed information was given on the prevention of drug-related crimes, the destructive effect of drugs on the human body, the social evils 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 the spread of AIDS and a number of infectious diseases were discussed.

 In the end, necessary educational printed products made in a new form and style were distributed by the Working Group of the State Commission.