A rehabilitation centre in Abu Dhabi is training teenagers to become anti - drug ambassadors.
In the past month, the National Rehabilitation Centre has taught 80 boys and girls, between 14 and 18 years old, how to prevent their friends from using drugs.
“The old method of visiting schools and lecturing pupils is not powerful enough and is too boring for them, ” said Dr Anas Fikri, the centre’s acting head of health education.
“So we decided to do it in the form of a training course at the centre to focus on certain exercises. ”
During the two - week camp, pupils were taught about the dangerous effects of drugs and how to identify addiction patterns.
They heard from former addicts, received training in self - development and produced projects to deliver to their peers.
The NRC will select “ambassadors” from the groups to receive further training and carry out prevention programmes for their peers.
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