KYF launches 'No to Drugs' campaign in Kurdistan Region

Slemani's Kurdistan Youth Federation (KYF) launched a 'No to Drugs' campaign in the Kurdistan Region which will last for two months.

Around a thousand young volunteers from all the cities of the Kurdistan Region are taking part in publicizing the campaign.

Karzan Hama Jan, head of the KYF, told PUKmedia that their federation decided to launch the campaign after seeing a rise in the phenomenon of drug use in the cities of the Region.

According to Hama Jan, the campaign includes hanging posters and brochures in the markets and streets to raise awareness of how dangerous drugs can be, as well as holding educational courses and seminars for young people to reduce drug abuse because it destroys society.

"According to statistics from the Narcotics Control Directorate in the Kurdistan Region, the rate of drug abuse among young people reaches 50% due to economic issues such as unemployment and social problems in the family from which young people try to escape by resorting to narcotics, everyone from the security and organizations must cooperate and citizens to curb this dangerous phenomenon in society,” Hama Jan said.

In 2021, about 2,000 people were arrested on drug-related charges, according to the Kurdistan Region’s Anti-narcotics Department. Last year, authorities in the Kurdistan Region warned that drug use and trafficking were on the rise. 



Reported by Adnan Jaff
PUKmedia