The Department of Oil and Gas Engineering/The Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit, in cooperation with the Center for Continuing Education, held an awareness seminar entitled: University students’ awareness of the dangers of drugs on Wednesday 12/13/2023, in the PT5 hall in the branch building, in the presence of the head of the department, Prof. Dr. Fadel Sarhan Kazem, and the assistant. Scientific Professor Dr. Najm Abdul Kadhim Al-Rubaie, head of the branch, Dr. Imad Abdul Hussein Fakher, and a large number of teaching staff, associates and students.The symposium lecture was given by Dr. Walid Abdel Moneim Khafi / Iraqi Society for Educational and Psychological Studies. The symposium aimed to educate university students about the dangers of drugs and their spread among young people by involving them in the awareness process and spreading a community culture about the danger of narcotic substance abuse due to its harm to the individual and society. Dr. Walid Abdel Moneim Khafi recommended the importance of strengthening the role of preventive counseling for university students by holding seminars, workshops and courses on the dangers of addiction and psychotropic substances and activating special programs through dealing with the Media and Communications Authority to combat addiction in the media and collectively.At the conclusion of the symposium, the head of the department, Prof. Dr. Fadel Sarhan Kazem, the department’s shield and a certificate of appreciation to the lecturer, Dr. Walid Abdel Moneim Khafi, and certificates of appreciation to Dr. Abdullah Ghaith Nafal/Continuing Education Center and Dr. Hadeel Fawzi Jassim for their fruitful efforts in making the symposium a success.