UNS — The Scout of Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta held a Webinar Anti-Abuse of Psychotropic Narcotics and Addictive Substances (Drugs) on Saturday (27/11/2021). The webinar was held through a hybrid event, offline from UNS Inn and online on the Zoom and UNS official YouTube channel. This webinar was held to educate more students on the dangers of drugs abuse so that they could avoid dangerous activity.
The event was attended by the Chief of Academic and Student Affairs Bureau UNS, Drs. Rohman Agus Pratomo stated that he fully supports this webinar considering the high number of drugs abuse that is a serious issue.
“We are concerned with this issue. We hope this kind of webinar could educate students and the community to avoid drugs abuse because drug abusers can come from any age, education level, and gender,” he stated.
Two experts in drugs abuse alleviation were invited to the webinar as speakers: the first speaker, Drs. Kusriyanto is an Associate expert instructor from the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Republic of Indonesia (RI) who shared material on ten reasons why people should avoid narcotics. In between his presentation, Drs. Kusriyanto also shared the threats of narcotics distribution nowadays. He stated that the increasingly advanced information and communication technology could sustain the practice of narcotics distribution.
“The information technology advancement is quite concerning because it becomes a means of sales and distribution that ease drug dealers to do their bad business,” Drs. Kusriyanto added.
The second speaker, Dr. Ratih Puspita Febrinasari, dr. M.Sc. explained the process of narcotics addict rehabilitation. The teacher of pharmacology and therapy, Faculty of Medical Science (FK) UNS, reminded that narcotics addict rehabilitation is not just held from medical approach but also social rehabilitation is also needed to prepare ex-drug addicts to go back to the society
“For the social rehabilitation, it is more integrated such as recovering the mental condition and their self-confidence to gain the courage to go back to the community,” Dr. Ratih stated. Humas UNS
Reporter: Ida Fitriyah
Editor: Dwi Hastuti