The Guantanamo University of Medical Sciences awarded PhD. Francisco Salvador Pascual Pastor, an addiction expert and president of the Spanish Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drug Addictions, the Science for Life distinction for his significant research contributions to the health community.
The award ceremony took place in the Aula Magna of the University of Guantanamo, where the 6th international meeting on Lifestyles versus Toxic Habits, which took place on September 17 and 18, closed this Thursday.
Pascual Pastor, also president of the Spanish National Committee for the Prevention of Tobacco Use, gave a conference on drug use as a response to social marginalization, in which he emphasized the importance of achieving healthy lifestyles as alternatives to drug use.
The scientific program included conferences and pre-event courses, including “Fentanyl and the Chemical: Challenges of the 21st Century,” taught by Anselma Betancourt Pulsan, Ph.D., director of the Provincial Council of Scientific Health Societies and Labor Hero of the Republic of Cuba.
Prestigious national and international researchers participated in person and virtually in the 6th international meeting on addictions, organized by the University of Medical Sciences and the Provincial Council of Scientific Health Societies. They exchanged knowledge on the challenges of drug use and reaffirmed the need for a society free of this scourge as a determinant of social development.
