Guantánamo.- Prestigious national and international researchers are participating, both in person and virtually, in the 6th International Meeting on Lifestyles versus Toxic Habits, sponsored 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 fosters exchanges on the challenges of drug use internationally and reaffirms 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,” given by Ph.D Anselma Betancourt Pulsan, who is the director of the Provincial Council of Scientific Societies of Health and Labor Hero of the Republic of Cuba, in the Aula Magna of the center of higher education, on September 17, at 11:00 a.m.
PhD. Francisco Pascual Pastor, an addiction expert and president of the Spanish Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drug Addictions (Socidrogalcohol), will be attending the meeting. He will give a lecture on drug use as a response to social marginalization on September 18th at 9:00 a.m.
Participants in the 6th 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.
