NAME OF THE EVENT: DRUG SYMPOSIUM SEMINAR
DATE: JANUARY 25,2013
TIME : FROM 8:00 AM TO 11:00AM
VENUE: AUDIO VISUAL ROOM
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS:
Drug addicts abuse and are physically and mentally dependent on drugs or alcohol. Drug addicts continue to use drugs in spite of the negative consequences experienced by the drug addict and those around them. Overdose is frequent, as addicts continually use greater amounts of the drug, reaching dangerous levels.
They cannot physically or psychologically function without their drug and when they are not using drugs, they face sometimes dramatic withdrawal symptoms. In spite of all this, drug addicts crave drugs, resulting in the life of a drug addict being determined by their drug addiction. Most addicts find they need professional help to quit doing drugs.
As time goes by, more and more teenagers get involved with different vices and one of the most dangerous addictions is drug abuse. They are the most high at risk when it comes to this issue, since they can be influenced by their environment. For this reason, we made up our minds to have our first event as a symposium regarding drug abuse. Our targeted participants were the first and second year high school students of the University of Mindanao, Tagum.
It is our first time to really organize an event like this, but I am pretty confident with my groupmates, for I can see in them that they are really interested in this project. In the midst of making this event happen, we had a lot of difficulties though organizing such event wouldn’t seem to require so much of hardwork, but it did. We had a problem looking for a speaker, and since it was our first time, we didn’t know where to go to. At the end of it, we still managed to overcome those circumstances with the help of Sir Carlito Panganoron. He suggested us Sir John Michael Bantonare who certainly responded to our offer to make him our symposium speaker.