In Irkutsk, four prevention campaigns for students will be held in September, dedicated to fighting smoking, drug addiction, and alcoholism. Participants will have lectures, individual consultations, flash mobs, quizzes, and an interactive game on healthy living and HIV prevention.

In Irkutsk, four campaigns to prevent tobacco smoking, drug addiction, and alcoholism will be held in September for students of secondary and higher educational institutions. The purpose of the events is to prevent socially negative phenomena and promote a healthy lifestyle among young people.
The first campaign will take place on September 18 at the Irkutsk College of Transport and Construction. On September 19 and 24, preventive campaigns will be held for students of Irkutsk State Technical University. As part of the campaigns, specialists from the Ministry of Health of the Irkutsk Region, Rospotrebnadzor, and the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia for the Irkutsk Region will hold lecture sessions for students, as well as individual consultations, and volunteers from the anti-drug movement will organize flash mobs and quizzes for students.
On September 27, a campaign in the format of an interactive game is scheduled for students of Baikal State University of Economics and Law. The interactive game “BSUEL – a territory of a healthy lifestyle” is expected to involve 13 teams of first-year students, 10 people in each team. The game will be held in thematic stages, during which participants will be provided with information on the prevention of drug addiction, tobacco smoking, alcoholism, and HIV prevention. Then the students will have to complete control tasks to check how well they have memorized the information.
Based on materials from the press service of the Department for Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region