The Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Social Affairs Sector at the Arab League, Ambassador Haifa Abu-Ghazaleh, said in a statement today, on the occasion of the International Day to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking: The interest of the Arab League in this matter was crystallized by the issuance of the decision of the Council of Arab Health Ministers in 2021, according to which the law was adopted A guideline on protecting the rights of mental patients and people who have given up and who have the desire to quit drug use, and it was circulated to Arab member states to guide the preparation of their national laws.
She referred to the existing cooperation between the Arab League, the Council of Arab Interior Ministers, and the United Nations Regional Office on Drugs and Crime for the Middle East and North Africa in the field of drug control, drawing attention to the decision issued by the Council of Arab Health Ministers last March regarding unifying Arab efforts to combat drug abuse. Drugs, and the development of an Arab indicative plan for the prevention of drug abuse.
The Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Social Affairs Sector at the Arab League stressed the need to strengthen work and cooperation in order to achieve a world free of drug abuse, and the need to raise awareness of the main problem represented by drugs.