Highlights from Day 1: Thursday, 10 April 2008

Opening Addresses

Representatives of Mentor Arabia, Oum el Nour, Cartias Lebanon, Caritas Luxembourg, the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Education all underlined the need to fight the drug scourge that is claiming the lives of Lebanese youth and the importance of prevention, particularly in schools, as a means to do so.

Presentations

The presentations made during the first day of “The Role of Schools in Promoting Drug Prevention” Seminar addressed the following three themes:

• Adolescence and the Drug Problem
• School-based Prevention and Education
• Putting Theories into Practice for an Effective Prevention