On September 27, 2023, employees of the Department for Combating Drug Trafficking of the Police Department of the Abay Region carried out explanatory work with students of 1-2 years of educational programs “Medicine”, “Pediatrics”, “Dentistry” on the topic: “Prevention of drug offenses among youth. Synthetic drugs and the consequences of their use.” Senior detective of the Department for Combating Drug Crime of the Police Department of the Abay region, police lieutenant colonel Espaeva Gauhar Serikovna, senior prosecutor of the department for supervision of the legality of the prosecutor’s office of the Abay region Smailov Aidos Serikovich and the doctor of the center for the prevention and control of AIDS in Semey Mamyrbekova Nailya Rymbekovna spoke about the problems of modern synthetic drugs , pharmacy drug addiction. Students were introduced to thel egal consequences of participating in drug trafficking, warned about penalties for distributing bookmarks, leaf lets with website names, and the consequences of using synthetic drugs.[/vc_column_text]