Guantanamo.- Cuban and foreign researchers will participate, both in person and virtually, in the Sixth International Meeting on Lifestyles versus Toxic Habits, organized by the Guantánamo University of Medical Sciences and the Provincial Council of Scientific Health Societies on September 17 and 18.
MsC. Caridad Romero Barrientos, president of the Chair of Drug Addiction Prevention and the Organizing Committee, noted that the event will foster exchanges on the challenges of drug use internationally and reaffirm the need for a society free of this scourge as a determinant of social development.
The meeting program includes lectures and pre-event courses, including one titled “Fentanyl and the Chemical: Challenges of the 21st Century,” which will be taught in the Aula Magna of the center for higher education, on September 17, at 11:00 a.m., by PhD. Anselma Betancourt Pulsan, director of the Provincial Council of Scientific Societies of Health, who is also Labor Hero of the Republic of Cuba.
The meeting will be attended by Dr. Francisco Pascual Pastor, an addiction expert and president of the Spanish Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drug Addictions (Socidrogalcohol), who will give a lecture on drug use as a response to social marginalization, on September 18, at 9:00 a.m.
The participants in the Sixth International Meeting on Lifestyles versus Toxic Habits will present drug prevention strategies and discuss their impact on health, their relationship with violence and other crimes, as well as the role of primary health care in achieving healthy lifestyles as alternatives to drug use.
