Prevention of drug addiction and drug trafficking.

On September 19 this year, the Branch of the Russian State University of Oil and Gas (NRU) named after I.M. Gubkin in Tashkent city held an event aimed at preventing drug addiction and drug trafficking.

At the event when making a presentation Mokiy Andrey Valerievich, a leading expert of the drug control coordination department of the National Information and Analytical Center under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan has emphasized that “Excessive and prolonged use of illegal drugs causes dependence. There is an addiction at the psychological and physiological level, and from the point of view of public morality, this disease is a kind of behavior which contradicts moral and ethical standards”.

The event was held under the motto “We are against drugs” and at the concluding part of the staff and students of the Branch received comprehensive answers to their questions about the activities undertaken to prevent drug abuse in the Republic of Uzbekistan.