The College of Dentistry at the University of Baghdad has organized a scientific symposium entitled (The Phenomenon of Addiction Among Youth) by each Prof. Zainab Abdul-Jabbar Azab and assist. Prof. Dr Sahar Hashim Abdel Kareem, a number of teaching staff and postgraduate students attended the symposium.
The symposium aimed to raise awareness among teenagers, males and females, and also to raise the awareness of parents about the phenomenon of addiction, whether smoking or drugs, as it has become one of the phenomena that society suffers from, and it also directing parents to keep their children away from drugs.
The symposium also explained the meaning of addiction, the types of drugs, the symptoms of each type, and the stages of addiction.
