Phasakorn Channgam
Sixty Pattaya students learned about the evils of drugs
and how to help prevent its spread in the community at a workshop organized
by two city departments.
Disaster department head
Kobchai Boonorana teaches volunteer youths about the evils of drugs.
The Pattaya Public Health and Environment, and Disaster
Prevention and Mitigation departments focused on drug prevention and
community programs to rehabilitate drug users.
Disaster department head Kobchai Boonorana said children
under 15 are a high risk of becoming involved with drugs and only about 48.7
percent of teens and adults under 25 have received some form of drug
education.
Kobchai said society needs to create programs that change
teens’ mindsets toward drugs and improve their quality of life. One way to
do that is to get youths involved in volunteer programs, he added.
The June 13-15 “Volunteer Youths Power of the Nation”
camp also schooled the students on civil defense, the mission of the
Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, extinguishing fires and first
aid.
